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09-APR-2007 Traveller

Towards a Theory of Form and Color * Traveller

This may have been Okay, if my lines were a little cleaner...but it was a first effort. I'm thinking on it...it's not bad, but like all of us, it is not as good as it should be.


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Canon DSLR Challenge17-Apr-2007 03:50
Thanks for the tip, Melanie. This was merely an experment in from and color...but I may well want to try it again...and I'll try Vector. Thanks again, Best wishes, Traveller
Canon DSLR Challenge15-Apr-2007 02:38
Very colorful. As far as creating it with no jaggies goes--did you start it as a vector image or a raster image? I'm not sure, but I think vectors would allow you to have cleaner lines (though I may just be showing my ignorance here--as I seldom work with vector images). --Melanie
Canon DSLR Challenge13-Apr-2007 21:47
Thank you for for the links, Barry.
-K2
Canon DSLR Challenge13-Apr-2007 20:36
Kiki, Traveller

Adobe has a new color tool called Kuler that you might find handy or just fun. Here's a page about it at Adobe Labs:

http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/kuler/

and here's the web-based version of it:

http://kuler.adobe.com/

Check out the Triad Rule.

Barry
Canon DSLR Challenge11-Apr-2007 14:50
Modern art it is!!
Looks like a mellow mushroom at a disco party!!
-Cat
jnconradie11-Apr-2007 14:32
:-) Thanks, Traveller. Your bit about "... there is an underlying photograph shot within the Eligible period, but, ..." is hilarious! :-) Regards jnconradie
Canon DSLR Challenge11-Apr-2007 00:57
It was a Cry for Help....lol.

As for the colors I think I disagree...strong, masquline...very much there.

I would love to work in pastels and I have saved your theory on color triplets. I will try it...but let us remember, I'm a Photographer, not an Artist....lol

Real Best Wishes,

Traveller
jbhgmvo10-Apr-2007 14:42
Won't argue the form, that's up to you.. reminds me of a giant Pacman creature :)
But I don't like the colors here. They look like a cry for help hehe. Colors are a vast topic which I do NOT claim to master. But I hope you or someone find the info below useful. Since you titled this "towards" anyway - here goes: A trick to find color triplets in Photoshop.

By color triplets I mean three colors equally far apart on the color wheel, matching in luminosity and saturation. Such colors share some mutual magic: They will in general appear more pleasing to the eye than three colors that are NOT triplets. So when "inventing" colors, this trick can be nice to keep in mind.

Here's how:
Open a new white canvas. Click the 'foreground color' icon to open the Color Picker.
Pick any color you like as the "basis" color. Now look at the hexadecimal value of that color, it's listed bottom center in a box outside the "#" sign.

Say you picked a bright, medium saturated blue, 83c9ff
Now cut the first two "digits" from the front of that string and paste them to the end of it: 83c9ff becomes c9ff83 - there's your second triplet.

Now take the two first "digits" of the new color, c9ff83, and do likewise:
You get the third triplet: ff83c9

Cick "OK" in between these steps to choose the actual color, and paint a stroke with each of the three colors, next to eachother on that white page.

The result is this case is 3 different pastel-like colors that somehow seem to "match". In this case it seems they would be a good color-idea for painting a young childs bedrom with... hmm.. well.. it demonstrates the point I think: The harmonic visual resonance between the colors should be obvious. Try it again with different colors - the magic repeats.

Some additional thinking...:
An objects shadow is often something in the vincinity of an inverse variant of its original color. Less luminosity and saturation. The color of the light that hits the object, mostly influence this. But say the source is "white light": The reflection from an objects original color will get an "inverse" hue in the shades. Of course, shadow colors or "color casts" like this is often a phenomena photographers want to correct. A nice pink skin with greenish shades can easily look weird, for instance.

This got a little long but I hope you found something of use here.
K2
Canon DSLR Challenge10-Apr-2007 12:35
Pisst....Hi, Nico, it's me, Traveller...it's such a strange kick in the butt writing comments to myself...lol

I was on a very long series of phone calls, like an hour and a half, and I had shot a white foam board for a Theater of Outrage I had in mind...If remembered, I suggested at the onset that someone shoot a white wall and an play..." to their colorful heart's content."

Little did I know that that would end up being me....there is an underlying photograph shot within the Eligible period, but, since I took it, and I mean all of it, to Transpanent and worked from there...I have some philosophical concerns with this.

Be that as it may, I still like it...However, I don't know if this is important enough to me to spend ooodles of time on this fixing it's flaws. I am thinking that I may be able to feather out the Jaggies, or some kind of edge detction to smooth this problem down.

Hummmm....

As to technique, lots of gradient maps, (something I didn't know about a month ago), magic wand, eliptical tool, and magnetic lasso, another tool I have -0- skill with or even understanding of.

But hey, this is an undeniable artistic effort.

And kind of fetching I think.

Best Wishes, Traveller
jnconradie10-Apr-2007 11:56
What?! Somebody would have to enlighten me, please. I have no clue how this was created? (At first I thought it was a design for a company logo. Hope that interpretation does not offend you, Dear Artist.) Regards jnconradie
Canon DSLR Challenge10-Apr-2007 06:41
Great composition but you have given yourself quite a chore with the curves especially.

I just use the clone tool at 1 pixel size and a rule on my Graphic Tablet and that is easy but with a mouse it is a little more tricky.

Sometimes the blur or smudge tool at 2 or 3 pixels will give a sharp enough contrast and they are easy to use by hand.

The curves I just do by hand and that certainly tests your accuracy and steadiness!... but except for that tiny bit at approx. 9:00 o'clock, the curves are very good.

I'd be interested how others would tackle that task. ~ Regards Melbob.
Canon DSLR Challenge10-Apr-2007 01:32
The Tumbnail is very, very, very nice...but I see what you mean about the Jaggies, I don't know how you would clean up these lines....maybe someone else knows.

You need a straight edge and eraser...lol

Best Wishes, Traveller