Week 11 - Colors

Analogous Colors

First, I bumped up saturation, then I created a new layer and selected orange as the background color. I went back to the original layer and used the eraser tool at 50% and erased all around the leaves to bring the layer color through but keeping it translucent so the original background can still be seen. The last thing I did was clone over the black and bad spots on the leaves.

Leaves

I have also included Dragonfly Analogous using analogous colors. This was part of a process I went through for my final project in my Color Theory for Web and Multimedia class at AIO, which I just finished a week ago. The dragonfly is a photograph I took, and then using the gradient tool created the analogous colors. There is just barely visible another layer, the background original layer where I had created my own 3 layered color stripes before using the gradient tool. I also created the border using different transparencies of the same color.

Dragonfly Analogous

Complementary Colors

I created a new layer, with the Overlay mode. I went over the grapes with burn tool to make them pop a little more. I then went back to the original layer and went to Adjustments > Hue/Saturation and bumped up the saturation.

Grapes

Color Monochromatic

I took the photo I used for the LDR, I selected a purple hue from the color picker and adjusted and then applied the gradient tool.

Dragonfly Monochrome

High Dynamic Range

Not too sure about the HDR either. I think I understood it as having to be multiple or at least 3 photos taken at different f/stops, but I am not really comprehending how the photos are combined to get the effect of greater detail in the final composed photo. So what I did was take this photo and used the burn tool to go over the dragonfly body, wings, and shadow at about 30% to bring the details forward.

Dragonfly HDR

Low Dynamic Range

Again, I am not real sure if I got the LDR right. From what I could gather from the photos on Flickr was this is simply black and white. So I went to Adjustments > Black and White and applied the change.

Dragonfly LDR