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    Color Wheel Cheat Sheet

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    The color wheel is a visual representation of color relationships that can help photographers understand how to use colors effectively in their images. It shows primary colors like red, yellow and blue that can't be created by combining other colors, and secondary colors like orange, purple and green that are made by combining primaries. The color wheel also illustrates complementary colors opposite each other that create high contrast, and analogous colors that are adjacent and create harmony. Understanding these color combinations can enhance photographic compositions.

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    The color wheel is a visual representation of color relationships that can help photographers understand how to use colors effectively in their images. It shows primary colors like red, yellow and blue that can't be created by combining other colors, and secondary colors like orange, purple and green that are made by combining primaries. The color wheel also illustrates complementary colors opposite each other that create high contrast, and analogous colors that are adjacent and create harmony. Understanding these color combinations can enhance photographic compositions.

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    The color wheel is a visual representation of color relationships that can help photographers understand how to use colors effectively in their images. It shows primary colors like red, yellow and blue that can't be created by combining other colors, and secondary colors like orange, purple and green that are made by combining primaries. The color wheel also illustrates complementary colors opposite each other that create high contrast, and analogous colors that are adjacent and create harmony. Understanding these color combinations can enhance photographic compositions.

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    Color Wheel Cheat Sheet

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    The color wheel is a visual representation of color relationships that can help photographers understand how to use colors effectively in their images. It shows primary colors like red, yellow and blue that can't be created by combining other colors, and secondary colors like orange, purple and green that are made by combining primaries. The color wheel also illustrates complementary colors opposite each other that create high contrast, and analogous colors that are adjacent and create harmony. Understanding these color combinations can enhance photographic compositions.

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    color wheel

    CHEAT SHEET
    Color is fundamental to composition in
    photography. Colors can enhance our
    images depending on the way we use
    them. But how do we know which colors
    work together? It can be very useful to
    look at the color wheel in case you are
    confused by various relationships between
    colors.
    However, some colors that lie next
    In order to find the most to each other on the color wheel
    complementary color, you look can also complement each other.
    at the opposite color on the color Analogous colors work to produce
    wheel. Complementary colors a subtle and delicate difference.
    provide a striking contrast.

    The color wheel is a circular scheme


    that visually represents the relationships
    between colors.

    The most common types of color pairings

    3
    are the following:

    • primary colors
    • secondary colors
    • complementary colors
    • analogous colors

    1 2
    the
    PRIMARY & ANALOGOUS
    SECONDARY COLORS COLORS essentials
    3 COMPLEMENTARY
    Primary colors are those you can’t Analogous colors are groups of three
    create by combining two or more other colors that are next to each other on
    colors together - these are red, yellow
    and blue. Secondary colors are the
    colors that are formed by combining any
    the color wheel. Red, orange, and
    red-orange are examples. The term COLORS
    analogous refers to having analogy,
    two of the primary colors - these are or corresponding to something in For example, if you were shooting a
    orange, purple and green. particular. subject that was predominantly red
    and want to add a striking contrast you
    would use green, the color opposite on
    the wheel.

    There are also tertiary colors - they An analogous color scheme creates
    are created when you mix a primary a rich, monochromatic look. This is
    color with secondary color and there especially true for the right side of our Complementary colors are pleasing
    are six of them - red-purple, red- color wheel between red and green. to the eye and they look rather
    orange, blue-purple, blue-green, The colors here might be considered refreshing. We can use a combination of
    yellow-orange and yellow-green. pastel shades, subtle but very effective complementaries to draw attention to the
    in compositions. subject or make a bold statement.

    TIP:
    TIP:
    Unlike complementary colors, TIP:
    The color wheel gives you
    analogous colors give a more If you don’t want to go
    opportunities to create brighter,
    soothing look to your photographs. overboard with complementary
    lighter, softer, and darker colors by
    Use them to suggest serenity. colors, use one color as
    mixing white, black, and gray with
    background and the other as
    the original colors!
    accents.

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