Colour

Re: Colour exercises

Nimh — Sat, 04 Jul 2009 16:05:40 GMT

You're welcome Zinc. Glad I could be of some use

Re: Colour exercises

Zinc — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:24:54 GMT

Thanks Nimh, that link to Marta's post is very helpful.

Re: Colour exercises

Nimh — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 19:17:39 GMT

This may answer your question.

Marta's advice on avoiding muddy skin tones- http://community.imaginefx.com/forums/permalink/180527/183424/ShowThread.aspx#183424

Re: Colour exercises

Nimh — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 18:37:32 GMT

Ctrl + Shift + U is a good way to desaturate a single layer or a flattened image (easy to undo too)

There was quite a good simple video tut on one of the cover discs (charles bernard color trek on december 2008 I think).I hope that's of some help?

(also henning ludvigsen did a colour feature in the iron man issue june 2008)

Re: Colour exercises

Zinc — Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:41:02 GMT

Thanks Conscious Bob.

Do you convert the image to greyscale via the Mode menu or do it some other way?

Re: Colour exercises

Conscious Bob — Sat, 13 Jun 2009 10:06:25 GMT

Zinc:

Hi all.
I'm looking for a little help using colours. While I've read up on colour theory and know what I should be doing technically, I really struggle to make that knowledge work in practice and any attempts at colour result in muddy tones and bland colour choices.
Therefore I was wondering if anybody knew any colour exercises I could try to help get my head around the basic use of colours and how they interact with each other in a painting?

Hmm, here's something that I do.

Periodically I'll view an image I'm working on in greyscale.

It helps me get to grips with the value range of the image and also helps me select better colours for the composition.

Trevor Claxton in issue 43 revealed that he makes his images in black and white before adding colour. While he's a pro and my images are no comparison, it's interesting that his method is another variation of seeing the values without the colours.

Colour exercises

Zinc — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 08:56:22 GMT

Hi all.

I'm looking for a little help using colours. While I've read up on colour theory and know what I should be doing technically, I really struggle to make that knowledge work in practice and any attempts at colour result in muddy tones and bland colour choices.

Therefore I was wondering if anybody knew any colour exercises I could try to help get my head around the basic use of colours and how they interact with each other in a painting?