Music and design Relationships: Understanding Color Application Methods

Have always wanted to write about the relationship between music and design articles, remove every time and others to describe the application of music principles to control the design time.

Often friends ask me how to match the color to look good, how to cultivate color sense? I have no system to study color, but the grasp of color has its own set, this will be from my first job to say.

My first job was to do the planning, usually work more idle, then the next some Photoshop tutorial their own learning, just at the beginning is also not touch the mind, also do not know what the layer is used, suddenly inspired a present, this layer is not the band drums, BASS, guitar, keyboard? Each instrument is a separate individual, coordinating each instrument, you can play a sweet music, whereas the noise. Aren't the layers in Photoshop the same? Each layer can be individually adjusted to the transparency, hue, color and other attributes, the whole picture is a band rehearsal room, carefully adjust the properties of each instrument to play the perfect music. That's it, getting started with Photoshop.

Let's talk about the colors in the music. In the middle part of Prague Square, there are several pieces of music that remind you of different countries ' images and colours. "Shanghai Beach," The Prelude to music together, you will immediately think of the Shanghai screen, the music and color what is the relationship between it?

The same color, there are different warm and cold relations.

People who know music can not find a fixed tone on the instrument, the note "Do" Tiaogan-style change position, different modes convey different feelings, suitable for different instruments and vocals. This is the same as the reason why we use color, the tone and mood of the whole picture are conveyed by the warm and cold of the picture. But the color of our minds in the warm and cold relationship is fixed. Red is warm, blue is cold. In fact, this is a wrong concept. As with the notes, the color changes with the surrounding environment to adjust to adjust (warm and cold relationship). Understand this truth, blue can also be rendered to us as warm.

The application of the concept of chord and melody in graphic design.

A friend who plays music knows another truth, no matter which one sounds good and bad, the notes must be put together to be called music, otherwise "do" "Do" "Do" has been pressed must be noise, "do" "MI" "so" put together into a chord "C". This is like the color of red and blue and white collocation, always harmonious. Chords can continue to add new notes, such as the addition of a "Si" chord immediately changed mood, into a 7 chord. If the "Mi" instead of "Mi" is a very different way to go to the Blues, as if in the combination of red and blue and white, with purple or orange color to the person's visual feeling is quite distinct. Chords can always add notes into the 9 chords, 13 chords ... In the color is like we often say high ash.

Colors are used in groups.

Knowing this, we will understand more directly that colors should be used in groups. These combinations should be based on chords C, D, E, F ... Like, there is a most original collocation, the designers want to constantly change, in these combinations to change it. You must put the color of the matter together, just like "hair" and "hope" who is not next to whom, it does not matter, your picture must be dull; If you must put hostile colors together, it will be ugly. Use the truth of the chord to understand color, you will immediately jump out of the wrong color, found that the available color too much is too beautiful. Reasonable collocation of color combination of the picture of the visual space continues to stretch, so that the picture is not only gorgeous and thick, this is the role of color chords. If you need the relevant color matching information, you can go to my www.cabbageman.cn download research manuals, each research manual has a color combination table.

The theme of the picture in the design.

But can it be music with just a chord? No, music still needs melody, music without melody is not good to hear. So, what is the melody of a graphic work, it is the process of seeing a piece of work in our eyes. A poster or even, a brochure, there is a first to see what, see what, most need people to see what, remember what, aftertaste and so on. These logic forms the melody of the plane works, let the audience's eyes when tense, when to rest, and finally stay in which place, this is the most we need to think about the brain problem. Design of the theme is also the design of the draft, this is the design of our first and most need to consider the place, which determines the value of the entire design.

The rhythm of the picture in the design.

Light has color is not enough, the use of color and music in the same rhythm, the need for the proportion of graphic works must be a rhythm of control, the control of the rhythm of the elements are many, they are commonly used in color, pictures and text arrangement, that is, the main tone.

The tone of the design.

Song has a major minor, major bright open, minor sadness Sadly, our band rehearse a song often say this is the song in E major, then the tone is clear, no matter how to go in this tune. Design also needs to set a tone, that is, we design the general designers of the framework and norms, designers around this set of framework and norms to create, master the keynote, then this work will be very unified, very harmonious, occasionally a few of the sound will make the whole design light up.

I hope that designers learn more music, using the theory of music analysis of color is simple and straightforward.
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