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This article is from March 26, 2004, and is no longer current.
Design How-To: Find the Colors in Your Landscape
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When shooting a natural scene that will be used in a travel brochure or magazine layout, you don’t have that much control over the colors that appear in the photograph. Yes, you can apply filters and muck around in Photoshop, but if the goal is the capture the real personality of a landscape, why mess with Mother Nature?
What you can do, however, is choose surrounding colors wisely. Accent colors for borders, type, and other layout elements can have tremendous impact on the photo itself, making its tones appear hotter or cooler accordingly.
In this feature from “Before & After Magazine,” see how you can select colors from within a “hot” scene and the “cool” it down by selecting tones from the color wheel to complement the image.
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Can this be reposted? Im very interested in the subject… Thank you! :)
It is a a very good an informative article, but I feel that it is too short and needs some explanation with some more examples.
Please repost this article. The pdf, according to Adobe Acrobat 4.05 (Windows) and Adobe Acrobat 6.01 (Mac), is corrupted.
Thank you.
I have been unable to open 4 out of 5 of your posted PDFs in the last month or so. This is disappointing since the subjects were of great interest to me.