Photoshop Color Strategies
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.
Release Date: 2010-02-10
Lessons
What is Color?
<p>Defining color and examining the components that make up color</p>
Duration: 12 mins 4 seconds
Memory
<p>Making records of color is helpful in remembering specific colors</p>
Duration: 3 mins 49 seconds
Optical Effects
<p>There are a lot of factors that influence how we see color. It is important to know them</p>
Duration: 9 mins 26 seconds
Side by Side Comparison
<p>Aid your visual thinking using variations, masks, and duplicates</p>
Duration: 5 mins 12 seconds
Infinite Variations
<p>Photoshop is a very powerful tool. Take time to explore possibilities when working with color</p>
Duration: 5 mins 36 seconds
Three Types of Color
<p>Ideal color, ambient light, and synthetic are three classifications that will help organize your colors</p>
Duration: 6 mins 41 seconds
Structure a Color Palette
<p>This is an important early step for all visual artists who want to establish a distinct style</p>
Duration: 11 mins 8 seconds
Color Psychology
<p>We respond physically and psychologically to color</p>
Duration: 10 mins 25 seconds
Light Filled Images
<p>How to use components of color to make images seem more light filled</p>
Duration: 3 mins 25 seconds
Luminosity
<p>Luminosity is something our minds use to interpret form, volume, and space</p>
Duration: 10 mins 49 seconds
Increase Hue Contrast
<p>Manipulating hue contrast will add energy to your images</p>
Duration: 9 mins 17 seconds
Reduce Hue Contrast
<p>Blend objects together or spread the ambient energy throughout the entire image</p>
Duration: 10 mins 13 seconds
Increase Saturation
<p>Saturation acts as a kind color volume</p>
Duration: 6 mins 26 seconds
Reduce Saturation
<p>Quiet the image by reducing the saturation of color</p>
Duration: 4 mins 40 seconds
Neutrals
<p>These are memory colors that help us to see tiny shifts in hue because they act as a standard</p>
Duration: 9 mins 22 seconds
Selectivity
<p>Simple selections, gradients, blurred selections and selection tools</p>
Duration: 8 mins 18 seconds
Atmospheric Perspective
<p>An important principle that deals with the push and pull of the three components of color</p>
Duration: 6 mins 28 seconds
Color of Shadows and Highlights
<p>Important to consider when producing ambient effects</p>
Duration: 8 mins 16 seconds
Night
<p>Simulate the ambient effect of night</p>
Duration: 5 mins 41 seconds
Inversion
<p>Inverting luminosity and inverting hue to produce some unique effects</p>
Duration: 9 mins 21 seconds
Transpose Natural Color
<p>Enhance the color values inside the image by pulling the colors of one object onto another</p>
Duration: 11 mins 56 seconds
Synthetic Color
<p>Thinking in new ways and imagining the possibilities of what we can do with color</p>
Duration: 5 mins 8 seconds