Use Photoshop to select colors to pull out the implied charm

Generally speaking, the color of the clothing should have the main color, with the main hue, 2~3 color can achieve the ideal effect, too cumbersome and complex colors will interfere with the appreciation of the experience, resulting in confusion of visual feeling.

Some colors that need to be circumvented

The avoidance is not an absolute exclusion zone. Aesthetic portrait Photography has a variety of styles, here is said to circumvent the general situation, with different themes and styles, seemingly taboo colors of clothing, the same can be taken out wonderful works. At the same time, the color mentioned here refers to the large area of color that occupies the absolute subject in clothing.

Such as:

Black--Black can express a tough, solemn, tense, cool feeling. But on the whole, in the natural scene of the shooting, black is quite quiet color, need the environment has a very bright colors to match and foil, such as red, gold can show a calm, elegant, luxurious effect. This color environment is difficult to find, the limitations are very large. In the color slightly dim monotonous environment, this color will greatly reduce the tone effect of the screen, showing a dry, bleak, lifeless effect, at the same time, black in the image of the post-processing, almost no room for adjustment of color, but also greatly limited the later adjustment space.

Purple-Purple is a noble color, with black, white, gray, yellow and other color effect is good. But it is the most difficult to match the color, beautiful colors in the environment, easy to appear very kitsch, very difficult to grasp.

Gray-a soft, elegant image, belonging to the middle character. In the actual filming process, a large area of gray clothing easy to produce vegetarian, dull, stiff, rigid feeling. If it is in the dark color of the scene, it is easier to aggravate the experience

Digital camera is just a faithful shot of the picture, as much as possible to record the lens information, but it does not know what is needed, which is not needed. This requires in the post-processing process, according to their own needs for screening, strengthen the needs, so that hidden appearance.

This is a film taken in the abandoned Villa group, the midday sun allows the picture to have full illumination, but at the same time the background of the sky left a large area of white. The large area of white in the screen will give priority to the attention of the audience, but this part of the content does not have substance, will make viewers have a dull feeling.

Below, use the optional color to render the information contained in the white sky.

01 Select "Image-adjust-color" option in the menu bar, select "White" in the Drop-down option to the right of "color", adjust the "cyan" parameter to +100%, click "OK" button

02 Select image-Adjust-color option again, select "White" in the Drop-down option to the right of the color, adjust the cyan parameter to "+45%", and click "OK" button

Final effect

By allowing the white part of the screen to increase the cyan, the background of the original most white sky appears soft cyan, the model skirt white part also shows the cyan tone. The screen color is full, the situation has been full contrast.

Tips: The white part of the screen often contains rich color information, captured by the camera, but did not appear in the screen, you can through the later processing, let this part of the information presented to serve the theme of the work.

It was filmed at the seaside, the summer, the light is very abundant, but the sky saturation is not bright enough. Optional color parameter matching, the sky will be adjusted more blue charming.

01 Select the "Image-adjust-vibrance" option in the menu bar to eject the "vibrance" dialog box. Adjust "vibrance" to "85"

02 Blue has been strengthened, but it is not eye-catching enough to make further adjustments with an optional color. Select the image-Adjust-optional color option in the menu bar. Adjust blue, cyan related parameters.

The final effect, the sky appears the jewel-like intoxicating blue.

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