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Posted on 16/08/11 10:30:19 AM |
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Wren
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Colour vs Hue and Saturation
Hi Steve, I notice that you use a lot of Hue and Saturation to change the colour of items rather than just use that colour in the first place. I was just wondering, is there a specific reason for this? Is there a time when it's better to use the colour swatch as opposed to hue and saturation. Both seem to work well, I just wanted to know for best practice reasons. Thanks again Wren |
Posted on 22/08/11 3:24:05 PM |
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Steve Caplin
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Re: Colour vs Hue and Saturation
I imagine you're talking about 100% Photoshop. The reason is that when creating a new object from scratch, I find it's best to draw it in tones of grey, adding shading as required, and then to colour it when the drawing is complete. If you wanted to draw a red ball, for instance, then starting with a red circle would cause Dodge & Burn to produce a whole range of other unwanted colours. By working in grey we can control just the luminosity; the colour, as a separate component, is best added afterwards. Does this help? |
Posted on 24/08/11 7:15:46 PM |
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dondiego
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Re: Colour vs Hue and Saturation
Wao Steve, your reasoning make a lot os sence. Pablo Picasso the great artist used to work like that mustly on grays shades and black and whte then added color. This took place 50 years ago and today you are using his same reasoning digitally, wao!!! _________________ Don |
Posted on 24/08/11 10:28:36 PM |
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Jota120
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Re: Colour vs Hue and Saturation
Well that is interesting. When I follow renascence painting style, like Caravaggio and others, we paint a neutral light yellow/white-ish, and dark bluge-earth colour to model the image. Very thin colours. High contrast and chiaroscuro style, otherwise cannot see the modelling. After that start applying many transparent colours and highlights. Its a bit funny, if you see the image after, its a bit 3D, but only if you see in real life. If you mix paint they are destructive, but if do layers of glaze it works like PS. Best thing about PS, can go back, but when painting not really possible. So interesting, Steve takes similar approach in his books. Prefect. |