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Color scheme
If you've been stuck before trying to pick the right color for you layout... keep on reading!

If you have touched any computer based photo editing programs, you might have realized that photos are nothing more than zeros and ones.

Everything comes back to math... even your good old Color wheel.

Let's assume that the color wheel is a 360° circle... The perfect matching complementary color will be on the opposite side (180°) In Photoshop just hit (CTRL+I) and/or anything called "invert colors" in other programs.

If you wanted a three color layout, you would divide the wheel by 3...
In Photoshop, (CTRL+U) and choose +120 for the second color, and -120 for the third. (in other programs look for anything, called HUE modification)

If you wanted a closer matching trio (Analogous), you simply have to give your Hue a similar positive and negative push 360/12 main colors=30°... But I prefer a ±25 spread.

When in doubt for additional color (title and/or journaling)... Black or white will normally do the job for you!

Here's a few examples all done from the same "starting color"
Just change the Hue, Saturation and Lightness
of your main color for the same schemes

Direct Complementary H+180
 
Pure Complementary H+180 S+100 L-50
 
Split Complementary H+150/H-150
Pure Complementary H+150 S+100 L-50/H-150 S+0 L-10
Triad H+120/H-120
Pure Triad H+120 S+100 L-50/H-120 S-10 L-10
Analogus H-30/H+30
Pure Analogus H-30/H+30 S+30 L-30

 

Kim Jensen has created a great Photoshop File to help you choose your color scheme.
Simply change the color of the background to get an instant color coordinated mix!

Here is free online application from pixy.cz

There is also an great little program called Color Schemer available Here for only $25

 

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