How To Use Simultaneous Contrast To Make Colors Even More Lively

Composed of two complementary color families (yellow and blue); one is light and the other dark, while one is warm and the other is cool. Together, they increase each other's intensity. Simultaneous Contrast You can make a color appear more lively by changing it or...

3 Qualities Of Light You Can Use To Make Your Images Glow

Color has three elements – luminosity, hue, and saturation.  Luminosity describes a color’s lightness. Hue describes a color’s temperature. (It’s the rainbow ROYGBIV.) Saturation describes a color’s degree of neutrality. All colors can be described as a combination of these three values. Each of these...

4 Tools You Can Use To Control Focus And Flow When Sequencing Your Images

Viewers search for significant changes between images presented together and the significance of the changes between them. It’s continuity. Every screenwriter needs to create it. Every storyboard needs to interpret it. Every director needs to guide it. Every editor needs to refine it. If you’re...

The Key To Lively Images – Midtone Contrast – And How To Get It

Contrast catches the eye. When looking at images short of an exciting subject and a dynamic composition, nothing does more to grab and hold attention. More contrast, more energy. Contrast is life. Contrast is not as simple as one slider – thankfully. There’s real control...

How To Avoid 6 Printing Mistakes That’ll Make You Want To Curse

Having taught over a thousand people for thirty years, I’ve seen and done it all. Here are the most common mistakes that people encounter when printing their images that you can avoid by simply looking at your files more closely and handling your paper more...

6 Tools You Can Use To Improve Continuity Between Still Images

“Order, unity, and continuity are human inventions, just as truly as catalogues and encyclopedias.” –  Bertrand Russell Continuity lies at the heart of the art of storytelling. The types of images selected and the transitions made between images presented in groups can be powerful tools...

3 Ways To Adjust A Skies In Lightroom and Photoshop

“Look at three ways to adjust your skies in Lightroom and Photoshop. Each works a little differently, and some make automatic selections – which works well sometimes. While others require a little more work but can give better results.” Find out more on Matt’s blog....

4 Alternatives To Cropping Your Photographs – Both Old And New Ways

Original Edges Darkened Edges Retouched   So you don’t want to crop your image. What other alternatives could you consider to minimize distractions? Here are four. Color - LHS Contrast is an eye-catcher. So, if you don’t want elements to catch the eye, reduce their...

Explore The Emotional Possibilities Of 3 Different Tonal Keys In Images

Want more mood in your photographs? One way to do this is to limit images to a single tonal range and focus more on the emotional associations it offers. Luminosity is often divided into three broad ranges; shadows, midtones, and highlights. If the tonalities in...

3 Ways To Enjoy Antarctica

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