I started out with Paper4 from the Best Buds Digital Kit and a fabulous photo of my nephew.
Color Wash: Black & White Image
- Select the paper you want to adjust. In the color tab, click on Black & White to take away all color.
- Click on Color Wash. For this image, I selected the blue from my nephew’s shirt by sampling from the screen. Then adjusted both the saturation and the intensity until I achieved the color I wanted.
Adjust Hue: Color Image
- Select the paper you want to adjust. In the color tab, click on Adjust Hue.
- Using the saturation slider, move it to the left. This will give you the same color patterns, but at a different level of color. In this case, it took on more of the colors of nature going on behind my nephew. Move the slider in the other direction and you can achieve those off-air Techni-color stripes the networks used to run when you got up too early on Saturday morning.
Color Balance
- Select the paper you want to adjust. In the color tab, click on Color Balance.
- Move those sliders around! You can get all kinds of color going on here. More red, more yellow, more green...it will change the balance across the whole image and give your page a whole new look. In my image, I decided to let the blues take over, reds become more purple, greens trend toward being more blue-green.
Really like the new paper you made?
Paste it onto a blank page, save it as a jpg and add it to your own collection of artwork to use over and over again.
OH MY GOODNESS! I had played with the color balance and hue before but had no idea what colorwash did (I played with it but didn't understand). THATS WHAT I HAVE BEEN LOOKING FOR! I have wanted to match papers to things on the page but didn't know how! thank you SO MUCH!
Posted by: Wendy Frankle | 09/29/2009 at 11:21 AM