5 Tips for Using Colors in Your Photos

On this video, photographer Sian Lewis from NPhoto magazine takes a look at 5 different things that can help you improve the use of color in your images.

On this video Lewis talks about complementary colors as well as colors which works well togther based on the color wheel. If you like to learn and try the colors of the color wheel you can do it with a very good free tool from Adobe called Adobe color CC (here is a video which explains how to use this tool).

In the past we looked at different aspects of color, including a very interesting video by  photographer Ted Forbes who explored color theory, Aaron Nace from Phlearn who looked at The Best Way to Use Color in Photoshop and How to Make Colors POP in Photoshop as well as  Adobe Photoshop Elements: Make Colors Pop in 60 Seconds by Bob Gager and many videos on color in general including how to change colors in Photoshop  and different ways of working with colors on this page.

Iddo Genuth
Iddo Genuth is the founder and chief editor of LensVid.com. He has been a technology reporter working for international publications since the late 1990's and covering photography since 2009. Iddo is also a co-founder of a production company specializing in commercial food and product visual content.

2 comments

  1. Well I guess with focusing too much on color comes failure in exposure.
    One of the photos she took was awfully dark.
    Remember color isn’t the only thing that matters, without good exposure color doesn’t even make a difference.

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