Working With Colors Archives

24 Jul

Why Your Monitor Can’t Display Some Colors

December 20, 2018
Posted by Daniel Meadows
color gamut, monitor, working with colors
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The modern PC monitor does an exceptional job of representing a photograph in light, built from hundreds of thousands, or millions of pixels, each capable of showing one of over 16 million colors. For those of you like myself who...

17 Jul

Fundamentals, High-End Beauty & Fashion, Working With Colors

Color and Luminosity: Real-World Color Correction Techniques

January 15, 2019
Posted by Lulie Talmor
color correction, color theory, working with colors
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Introduction Every now and then, an image comes along with complex color schemes that can be daunting to retouch. For such cases, isolating luminosity and color components of the image and tackling each one individually can be helpful. First, we must...

05 Jul

Commercial Retouching, Working With Colors

Working With Colors: Examining The Louis Vuitton Look

January 16, 2019
Posted by Daniel Meadows
advertising photography, colors, working with colors
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Following on from my last article in which we examined the use of complimentary colors in a Mario Testino campaign, this week I want to bring to your attention a piece in which I examined the very particular style...

02 May

Hardware & Tools, Working With Colors

Why You Need to Calibrate Your Screen

December 13, 2018
Posted by Zach Sutton
color calibration, screen calibration, working with colors
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Screen Calibration has left people scratching their heads for years. Common questions like “Why do I need to calibrate my monitor if my clients aren’t calibrating theirs?” are all too reasonable and provide an interesting argument to the debate....

30 Oct

Fundamentals, Working With Colors

Introduction To Color Management

July 29, 2021
Posted by Julia McKim
color management, color theory, working with colors
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COLOR SPACES Color Management is the process of coordinating colors from nature to camera, then to monitor, then to print, so that the color that will be produced in your final images correctly represents the colors that you intended, and match those...

30 Oct

Fundamentals, Working With Colors

Fundamentals Of Color Theory

July 29, 2021
Posted by Julia Kuzmenko McKim, RA Team
color theory, fundamentals, working with color
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These are the things every visual artist must know and understand. LIGHT & COLOR If you want to learn to manage color, it helps to first understand just what it is: Color is a property of both an object and light, and...

18 Jun

Fundamentals, Working With Colors

Bit Depth: 8-bit Vs. 16-bit

February 5, 2018
Posted by Julia McKim
Bit Depth, fundamentals, working with color
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Bit Depth is a metric of how many unique colors are in the color palette of an image that are used to represent each of the colors. This is not to say that the image will make use of...

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Why Your Monitor Can’t Display Some Colors

Color and Luminosity: Real-World Color Correction Techniques

Working With Colors: Examining The Louis Vuitton Look

Why You Need to Calibrate Your Screen

Introduction To Color Management

Fundamentals Of Color Theory

Bit Depth: 8-bit Vs. 16-bit

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