Chapter 5. Color styles

Color essentials

If you understand the way color works, you’ll be able to make creative decisions and solve a variety of problems, too.

Six players and three couples

When starting to think about color in printing and photography, forget about how you mixed paint in school! Instead, a six-color palette with three primaries is used: red, green, and blue. Opposite each of these are their secondary colors: cyan, magenta, and yellow. All color controls in image-editing software ...

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