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Light and Color Study: Night Scene

In this collection of lessons, we will study the of light on color while painting a night scene. Software required: Photoshop CS5 and up.

Eddie Russell - Pluralsight course - Light and Color Study: Night Scene
by Eddie Russell

What you'll learn

In this collection of lessons, we will study the of light on color while painting a night scene. Throughout the process of painting this color concept, we'll focus on various aspects of light and color at night. After we've spent a little time setting up are composition, we'll get things started by choosing the colors for the sky in our image. Here we'll learn why colors change so much at night. We'll also learn about choosing both key and fill lights for our scene. Some of the other topics we will address while working through this painting are things like atmospheric perspective, reflected light, cast shadows, and form shadows as well as the interaction between colored lights. After completing this course, you should have a better idea of how to choose color for a night time image. Software required: Photoshop CS5 and up.

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Eddie Russell - Pluralsight course - Light and Color Study: Night Scene
Eddie Russell

Eddie is a content producer for Unity as well as a seasoned shading, texturing, lighting and rendering artist. He takes pride in helping creative professionals reach their learning goals.

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