Element: Color

Color is a major design element that we love. Colors play an important role to set the mood of the photograph.
The colors can be broadly classified as warm colors and cool colors.
Red, Orange, and Yellow are the warm colors that suggest the feeling of warmth, liveliness, and energetic.
Blue and Green are cool colors that suggest the feeling of calmness, tranquility, and sad/gloomy.

Pick your favorite color
Set camera to the lowest aperture possible
Take 10 SEPARATE photos of this color
Do not make your 10 photos all of the same topic (ex. green using all plants)
Make sure the color is dominant in the photo

HOW TO MAKE THE COLOR GRID IN PHOTOSHOP:

FIRST EDIT ALL YOUR PHOTOS INDIVIDUALLY IN PHOTOSHOP

File NEW in Photoshop
Make sure you are using inches on the right side of the screen
Set the Width at 8.5 inches
Set the Height at 11 inches
Hit Create
Make sure you can see your layers panel
Click the tiny black and white circle at the very bottom of the layers panel and choose solid color
Move the icon around to choose black.
To add your first photo: File PLACE EMBEDDED and choose your first color photo to insert
Use the MOVE TOOL to move it where you want. Pull in from the corner to resize it.
Continue adding your photos

TO ADD THE BACKGROUND AND BORDER AROUND EACH PHOTO:

Click on a photo layer and then click the tiny fx
Choose Stroke>click on the little color box and choose white for the color

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