Photoshop Color Strategies

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True mastery of color requires not only knowing how to use the various color tools available to you, but also knowing how to choose between them, when to apply them, and why to apply them to achieve specific color effects. You can combine all of this new knowledge to craft your own unique artistic signature style. Put the unprecedented power and precision of digital color to work for you and your images now.

What is Color? (12:04) Defining color and examining the components that make up color
Memory (03:49) Making records of color is helpful in remembering specific colors
Optical Effects (09:26) There are a lot of factors that influence how we see color. It is important to know them
Side by Side Comparison (05:12) Aid your visual thinking using variations, masks, and duplicates
Infinite Variations (05:36) Photoshop is a very powerful tool. Take time to explore possibilities when working with color
Three Types of Color (06:41) Ideal color, ambient light, and synthetic are three classifications that will help organize your colors
Structure a Color Palette (11:08) This is an important early step for all visual artists who want to establish a distinct style
Color Psychology (10:25) We respond physically and psychologically to color
Light Filled Images (03:25) How to use components of color to make images seem more light filled
Luminosity (10:49) Luminosity is something our minds use to interpret form, volume, and space
Increase Hue Contrast (09:17) Manipulating hue contrast will add energy to your images
Reduce Hue Contrast (10:13) Blend objects together or spread the ambient energy throughout the entire image
Increase Saturation (06:26) Saturation acts as a kind color volume
Reduce Saturation (04:40) Quiet the image by reducing the saturation of color
Neutrals (09:22) These are memory colors that help us to see tiny shifts in hue because they act as a standard
Selectivity (08:18) Simple selections, gradients, blurred selections and selection tools
Atmospheric Perspective (06:28) An important principle that deals with the push and pull of the three components of color
Color of Shadows and Highlights (08:16) Important to consider when producing ambient effects
Night (05:41) Simulate the ambient effect of night
Inversion (09:21) Inverting luminosity and inverting hue to produce some unique effects
Transpose Natural Color (11:56) Enhance the color values inside the image by pulling the colors of one object onto another
Synthetic Color (05:08) Thinking in new ways and imagining the possibilities of what we can do with color

Course Time: 02 Hours 53 Minutes

G. Parker

Mar 30 2012

These videos have totally changed my way of thinking - amazing insight - thanks so much for sharing

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