Editing Your Photos Is Essential

Choosing color Options for photos

Not satisfied with your photos' colors?  Before committing photos to a website, photo album, e-card, or printed piece, be sure to consider color options, because color can affect the mood that photos convey.

There's no doubt that photo coloring temperature (a.k.a. white balance) affects the way people view things. Adjusting the relative “warmth” or “coolness” of an image can change its mood, such as pleasant and comfortable vs. unfriendly and aloof, or uncomfortably overheated vs. overly chilling.

 Cool Blues  Think of icy blue tones. Don't they bring chills down the spine? When cooler tones are used in a photo, a cooler mood is conveyed. A photographer's model can appear sad, distant, lonely, or melancholy; all these moods are suggested when you add just a touch of blue to an image, as shown below.

Cool Blue Samples

Move your cursor on then off these four images to see the original photos that Warren converted to cool blue.

 Warm Reds  Reds add warmth to an image. They should be used with care because they can create an undesirable blood-washed or sunburned effect when done in excess. However, when used subtly, red can really make a photo pop, causing vegetation to jump off the screen or giving the sky a more vivid feel.

Warm Red Samples

Move your cursor on then off these four images to see the original photos that Warren converted to warm red.

 Sepias  You might find that using a sepia effect is pleasing to the eye and mood. Although a monotone, sepia provides a warmer, softer alternative to black and white as it dispenses a gentle treatment of people in portraits. Sepia can also be used to suggest that the image is a vintage photo. (See Warren's vintage transformations and sepia toning pages.)

Sepia Samples

Move your cursor on then off these four images to see the original photos that Warren gave a sepia tone.

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 Parents! Teachers!  If you'd like to access numerous free, high-quality Christian coloring pages for your children, see what Warren Camp Design offers you on this page.

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