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Many photography enthusiasts will take the late color adjustment as a very important step in the whole photography process, and strive to show their personal style and highlight the characteristics of the photos through color adjustment.

However, it should be noted that the color blending is essentially not as simple as editing the color of the photo. Unreasonable and mechanically applied color blending will make the photo look very unnatural and lose the characteristics of the photo itself.

So today, let's briefly share with you how to adjust the color of the photos reasonably.

1. Photography is a systematic work. In photography, the preparation, shooting and editing in the later stage should be a systematic work, and it is unreasonable to separate the later stage for operation, that is to say, the later stage should cooperate with the earlier stage to choose the color blending effect according to the characteristics of the photo and the content of the story behind it.

Take the cyan-orange tone as an example, in this color blending effect, warm colors such as yellow, orange and yellowish green will be shown as orange or orange-red, while cool colors such as blue and green will be shown as cyan. Then it is obvious that the environment of autumn and winter is relatively more suitable for this kind of color adjustment, because the color of plants in autumn and winter is more reasonable.

Exaggerated color matching effect is the same, when shooting a character, this tone may make the character's face darker and yellow, but the final effect will be unnatural.

Unreasonable color blending looks very strange. The logical color behind the color itself has its own meaning, such as yellow can represent harvest, promotion, power and so on, while purple represents mysterious, romantic, profound and so on.

Therefore, when blending photos, we also need to take into account the characteristics behind different color effects. For example, we have shared the work of photographer Xiaowu Lamo before. His photo tone is mainly light yellow and light blue, which looks very fresh and clean. Light color can well show this fresh and natural feeling.

At the same time, his content is also the seaside, streets and other places, but also very in line with the fresh feeling, the characteristics of the color, the characteristics of the shooting place are consistent with the later color blending style, so the photos will look very comfortable.

Last time, we introduced a work from the 2023 Huawei Video Competition:

The color adjustment of the photo is also combined with the characteristics of the shooting location, while the retro characteristics of orange and yellow are used to give the photo a sense of history, and the final effect will be more comfortable.

3. The natural and most advanced color blending actually makes people unable to see the later effect, that is, the color blending is perfectly combined with the shooting content.

If the color blending of a photo has obvious traces in the later stage and can be clearly seen as the effect of color blending, then it is very likely that the color blending will not be successful.

The color blending itself is also to highlight the characteristics of the photo and make the photo more aesthetic, while the fresh, natural and in line with the original characteristics of the photo can better express the sense of beauty.

Let's take a work from Huawei Video Competition as an example:

In this photo, you can actually see the traces in the later stage, but the adjustment of the color in the later stage is carried out around the shooting environment and the characteristics of the photo. The dark part appropriately reduces the saturation, while increasing the saturation of the warm color and increasing the contrast. At the same time, let the photo tilt to blue as a whole, in order to highlight the characteristics of serenity, so that the photo looks very harmonious.

This article comes from the official account of Wechat: play some Photography (ID:wakexiao), by AGER

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