This week Cee walks us through the colour chart, starting off with warm and cool colours;
Which Colors are Warming and Which are Cooling
The color wheel below will give you a quick idea on which colors will give you that warm, cuddly feeling and which colors will make you want to put a jacket on.
Borrowing Cee’s Colour Wheel
You see that the warm colors are red to yellow-green. Â If you want to warm up a photo, add a little bit of orange or yellow to your photo. Â You can do this with the white balance on most post-processing software. Â You can even change your camera settings to help. Â I usually wait until I do my post-processing because it all depends on the feeling I want from the photo once I decide to edit it. Â –Â CCYCÂ for more details.
The assignment – 3 warm and 3 cool coloured photos
The first image is slightly tricky, as there are a lot of blues and greens which do make it more on the cool side of the palette, however the warm hues that dominate the image in the sand and the grass give it more of a warm toned image. The rest are all definitely warm tones, the soft yellows and the warm pinks all say summer warmth to me.
Now the next group are all cooler tones predominantly blues and greens. The last two are the same image the colour is slightly warmer due to the lime green prominence (Even with all the pops of blue), but the B&W is all cool tones.
So I guess everything is not always so straight and easy, sometimes an image is slightly more warm than cool or vice versa. You can always change the tone of an image in PS with a warming or cooling filter too.
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9 replies to Cee’s Compose Yourselve Challenge – Colour Basics
Great examples of warm and cool colour photos Julz, and a good tip about altering them during editing rather than on the camera, I often change my mind about how I actually want a photo to feel like, after I get home 🙂
Julz, I really like your series of photos. I love the cooler piers in the water and the clouds. I really like your black and white as well. Guess I am leaning on the cooler side for my favorite grouping of your photos. 😀
Great examples of warm and cool colour photos Julz, and a good tip about altering them during editing rather than on the camera, I often change my mind about how I actually want a photo to feel like, after I get home 🙂
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exactly……….depending on HOW you do it it can also be non destructive incase your change your mind again!
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Of course 🙂
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Beautiful photos, what is the second photo in the cool colours? Regards.
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The remains of an old Pier. Just the timber pylons
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Julz, I really like your series of photos. I love the cooler piers in the water and the clouds. I really like your black and white as well. Guess I am leaning on the cooler side for my favorite grouping of your photos. 😀
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Thanks
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Beautiful images Julz. The one of the pier supports is stunning.
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Thanks
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