Description
Learn to make conscious artistic decisions to enhance your artwork, based on color theory. Discover the role that color plays in photography and other branches of the visual arts. Dive into the basic properties of color, the principles of color harmony, and learn how to rely on the color wheel to create more dynamic works of art. Examine the cultural meaning of color, its emotional impacts, and how color helps imbue compositions with visual weight. Sharpen Your SkillsUnderstand Color IntuitivelyLearn useful guidelines, traditional color schemes, and how to create a pallet that will direct viewer's attention and enhance a sense of atmosphere in your images. Working With ColorGain a better understanding of hue, saturation, brightness, tone, shade, and tint. Explore the color wheel - primary, secondary, and tertiary colors, and make an image "pop" with complementary color harmonies. Gauging Color TemperatureExplore color temperature settings to describe indoor and outdoor light, and how to rely on kelvins to know whether your photograph will end up with a cool, warm, or neutral color scheme. Creating DimensionDiscover the dimensions of color, including value contrast, hue contrast, and saturation contrast, and how to use each to create depth and interest in your images. Finding LightLearn the ways color is affected by light and its direction, and the advanced photo editing techniques you can use to develop the balance and beauty in your work. Powerful Color GradingFollow through a complete color grading exercise designed to put color theories into action. Learn to dramatically enhance portraits with complementary and harmonious colors, building warmer, more impactful images.
