Uses color creation of 7 techniques

This article was written by Andrew Gibson, he was technical editor of EOS magazine, hosted an art site. The following is the article "7 Ways to Create Powerf

This article was written by Andrew Gibson, he was technical editor of EOS magazine, hosted an art site.

The following is the article "7 Ways to Create Powerful Photos with Colour of selections:

Color is an important part of the composition, like photographing a building outlines, shape, texture, line, and as important components of the light.

1. use strong and block of color (Use Strong, Bold Colours)

Strong and high color saturation can give impact.

Use this method of the point is to maintain the composition of simple, maximize the use of this approach is by some large color to composition. For example, the above diagram, the Basic can be divided into blue and green.

In this technique has a little trick is to use a polarizer.

The role of polarization microscopy is reflective of the Elimination of non-metallic surface, leaving a more pure and rich colors. For example, the first picture above without using polarized lenses, and the second picture using a polarized lenses.

2. use the thin, pastel style color (use subtle, pastel colours)

This method and the first technique is used in the opposite direction.

Ideal for soft lighting environment, there is no obvious shadow, and any extra contrast will be destroyed by those photos theme. You can use PS in hue-saturation, "" to reduce the degree of saturation of the photo. For example, the photo above, there is no bright place nor particularly attractive local attention.

3, in neutral background use only one color (use one colour against a neutral background)

Neutral background is gray or black or very dark shadows of the background, then there is a strong color to better highlight the topic of attention.

For example, the previous site.

4. let a color leading tones (let one colour dominate)

Make one color, leading tones, when these colors is the RGB (red, green, blue) effect is even more apparent.

Such as this one above is the dominant red ceramic color tone.

5, color balance (Color balance)

The following is a diagram called the color wheel, mainly various kinds of relationships between colors.

The next color represents a harmonious relationship with the transition, the opposite color represents the relationship between the contrast and comparison.

If you want to author a feeling of serenity, and oh so that you can use the adjacent color matching.

For example, the following is a diagram, use the color wheel adjacent blue, green, and purple mix: