How to Use Complementary Colors in Photoshop
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How to Create & Use Complementary Colors in Photoshop
Certain color combinations will always look good together, the most simple color combination being complementary colors. Learn how to identify and create complementary colors, then change the background of a photo to compliment the subject!
How to Use Adobe Color Themes
Complementary colors are opposites on the color wheel. In case you don’t have a color wheel laying around, Adobe has one built-in to Photoshop.
To access the color wheel called “Adobe Color Themes” go to ‘Window - Extensions - Adobe Color Themes’. In this dialog, you can create different color themes including complementary colors, analogous colors, triad colors and more!
To create a complementary color of an existing color in your image, first use the eyedropper tool to sample a color. Then click on the icon below the color wheel in the Adobe Color Theme Dialog labeled ’Set selected color from active color’. This will load the color you just chose using the eyedropper tool into the Adobe Color Theme Dialog. For best results, be sure to have the center color box chosen in the Adobe Color Theme Dialog.
Once the appropriate color is chosen, click on the drop-down menu on the top of the Adobe Color Theme Dialog and navigate to ‘Complementary’. The colors below will now represent a collection of complementary colors.
To retrieve more information on any color, choose it from the 5 available color boxes and note the numbers below. Each color can be identified based on different values. You will see values for CMYK, RGB, HSB, and HEX codes.
These values can be plugged into any color window to accurately match colors.
How to Change Colors in an Image
Now that the appropriate color has been sampled, loaded into the Adobe Color Theme Dialog and a complimentary color has been chosen, it is time to color objects in the photo to represent the complementary colors.
Changing colors in an image can be done in many ways, in this example, we cover 2 methods for coloring an image.
The easiest method is to create a ‘Hue/Saturation’ adjustment layer by going to ‘Layer - New Adjustment Layer - Hue/Saturation’. Click on the ‘Colorize’ button in the Hue/Saturation Dialog, then enter the Hue number from the HSB values on the Adobe Color Theme Dialog.
In this example, we chose a hue of 159, making the background a nice green to compliment the red/brown in the hat.
The last step is to use a layer mask to make the green layer visible over the background and nowhere else. Because the background of the image is one color, we use ‘Select - Color Range’ to select out the background and load the selection into the layer mask.
There are many ways to make selections and masks, feel free to use the method that is most comfortable to you!
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Great Tutorial for beginners and advance users. Not boring but not too advance.
I never knew there was a color wheel in Photoshop, I just learn all the colors and methods from books and memorized it. This is just saving my brain so much and its going to be even more accurate! Thank you Aaron!!!!
Need to say thank you again because once just wasn´t enough!
One heck of a lesson Aaron...Thanks
Wow, kick ass tutorial. My color game just went up a few levels
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One of your best!!!! Love your short episodes that are packed with great info I can use immediately. This one's fantastic. It gives an accurate method of choosing and using a complimentary color. Compared to the usual instruction that says, "eyeball it", this is light years ahead. Thanks Arron.
This is exactly what I was looking for! I've read some helps on Adobe official website about this tool but it wasn't clear enough for me for some reason. But you made this video tutorial and you saved my day! Thank you very much, Phlearn!
Awesome tutorial, this was very helpful, specially i learned how to use Adobe color wheel in photoshop, Thank you so much!
very usefull, i got one question, i wonder is there a rule which color looks better on front or background, for example i want to colorize image, and i want red and green complementary colors, which one is better for front and background
It doesn't really matter, that's a creative decision. If you really want an answer, I would say green background. Red is a very attention grabbing color (stop signs, blood), so is best used in moderation compared to green which demands fairly little attention (grass). So Red:foreground Green:background
+Demelon nicely explained
Your teaching style is top notch. Love the in depth explanation followed by the quick review. Best PS content on TH-cam hands down 🙌🏻
Awesome video!! Great information on the Color selection, I didn't even know about the Color Wheel in PS until now... Thank you!
Great tutorial as always. I keep forgetting about using complemtary colors. I am sure this tutorial will serve as a reminder. Thanks!
Very nice tutorial......easy to understand and ready to practice...😉
Wow, the 60fps really pops! I've been enjoying other Phlearn videos where you look much much younger. Thanks so much for the best Photoshop tutorial videos ever!
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As always, your videos are easy to understand and fun to watch! I started with Photoshop CC a year ago, and your videos have been an inspiration for me ever since. Many thanks!!!
Best teacher ever. So well explained!
Awesome video! Thank you!
Great great ! You are my prefered TH-cam channel for Photoshop ! Thank you so much
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That's an awesome tip. Thanks a lot Aaron!
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WOW! You are a hero. I have been using solid color a while now but I just do guess work til I find the right color and get frustrated on some edits.
This is exactly what I was looking for! Thank you very much!
Same!
awesome job with lessons. super helpful. Thanks!
Hi Aaron, I just found this tutorial and I love it. I noticed you published this tutorial almost five years ago, back in September 2016. I am using Adobe Creative Cloud 2021. Within Photoshop (22.4.2 Release), when I click on Window → Extensions (Legacy) → Adobe Color Themes, there is a message at the top of the pop-up window that reads: "The Adobe Color Themes panel is being removed from this product in July." 😟 Today is July 5th, so any day this will be gone. Do you have some ideas about what will replace this feature? Have you already done a tutorial on it?
I wonder the sme i just found this video
Ah, the + Eyedropper for the Color Range selection tool... never noticed that, always fooled around with fuzziness only... thanks!
love it ..... great tip and fast way to get the right color :-) thanks a lot
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Aaron, thank you for sharing this video. This is actually very useful to learn how to get great results.
nice tutorial! thank you Aaron!
I love it! Keep em coming Phlearn!!
great video, very useful!!
thank you so much for this video, love it
Thus works in this example but usually the color picker won't isolate colors properly. By creating a path you won't affect the subjects color and do a proper isolation.
Awesome Tutorial
Man, I have been fooling your work around even before I actually subscribed to your channel.
I gotta say, you have always been a great photographer...
but man, your images are way better than what they were, and keep getting better each day.
Its a big jump in quality, especially if ou consider you were already pretty good.
Been doing this crap outside Adobe for quite awhile. Color themes-- great tip and more exact!
How do you do this now Adobe Color themes and Extensions has vanished ? Can I use the Swatches Panel ? Confused
Thanks Aaron!
Vim just starting to learn Photoshop and your videos are awesome. Thank you
Great video, thanks a lot, Aaron!
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Quick and easy...in a 16-minute video
This was perfect and exactly what i ran across during one of my shoots recently. Thanks Aaron!
Wow! Will have to watch it again.
You re a genius! Always learning new stuff here!
Hi, please make a video on color themes now because photoshop has discontinued color themes extension in Photoshop. It's now on web only.
i will start using this .... thanks for your help aron
this is very great and very good
Great Video!! Now you just need to take the previous video " How to Color Tone with Apply Image in PS " and combine that with this one. This way we can color tone with complementary colors to achieve a one of a kind look.
This is cool. Thanks for the tip dude.. Love your work..
You always make the BEST stuff! I was actually trying to figure this out with that old Adobe Kuler. Thanks
it was great. I'd like to try it along with your video
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Superb. Thanks heaps
very usefull..thank you
Love the tutorials. Super useful! Thank you Aaron.
What do we do now that colour themes have been taken off of Photoshop. I’ve read there are hacks around it but it is very complicated it’s a real shame they have stopped it
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set the playback speed to 2x, but its a really great tutorial!!
Amazing tutorial. Thank you!
Yes! thank you. Can't wait to try this out. Love the bun also :)
Is it just me, or does anybody else prefer the original background colour?
Nonetheless, awesome video, so thanks a lot :)
definitely the original colour is better.
Seems the wall actually has a slight tint of green already, the photographer was on point. To make the whole image more lively and expressive though, could use just a little bit of increase in saturation, but definitely not as much as the final image!
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You are the best!!! May you do an episode about colors (RGB vs RGBs vs CMYK etc.) and printing techniques for events or home display?
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Oh... on extensions I only have Kuler & Mini Bridge, not the option you choose! Why? Thank you!
How were you able to set up Photoshop to allow the image to more freely through out the program? be able to use the entire screen to edit like how it is in Illustrator.
Excellent
Thank you! Very much great tuotorial!
An excellent explanation. You should make tutorials about making tutorials! You're that good.
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is this only available on the newest/subscription version of Photoshop?
commenting "awesome" before i even watch the video. As it always is.
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Looks great! I tried to follow it with an image, but at about 10:27 in the video when you invert the selection in the layer mask area, the new colour hue is only applied to the selected area. This doesn't happen on my setup (Photoshop CC on Mac OS 10.12.3). The new hue colour is applied to the whole image. Any idea what I've missed? Thanks.
same for me... can you help me?
Aaron you are super. Please can you teach us how to use the Slice tool. Please, Please, Please...Cheers mate!
Great! Tanks!
Aaron, this was a terrific tutorial...one of your best. I never knew I could find the color wheel and specific complementary colors inside PS. Thank you!
I have a suggestion for you. I'm trying to figure out how to color my model gold so she looks like the girl who was painted in the James Bond movie, "Goldfinger". Could you do a tutorial on that, please?
Great video, but why not use the color range option every layer mask offers?
Cool! I like the HSB better
Ehi Aaron, do you use X-Rite ColorMunki Display or something like that? thanks
I noticed you adjusted selections at the end around her but not on the dress that had some showing. was that so it could keep a more natural reflection?
also her eyeball was a little green at the end, I guess he was just showing how to do it quickly
I think quick select would have been a better tool for this image than colour range. It would have automatically stopped at the dress.
great tutorial
hello
Could younplease explain me : why the hex number is different on the adobe wheel plugin ( #ac4730 ) compare with the color piker (#ab4630 ) visible at 5.35 minutes ?
many thanks for your help ...