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Pro tip: stop color picking from photos for your backgrounds
I spent like 4 years doing digital portraits where I'd just grab colors straight from the reference photo. Thought i was being efficient. Then last month a friend who teaches art pointed out that every single piece i had looked flat and muddy. She showed me how to manually pick hues 3 shades lighter and more saturated for the background wash. Tried it on a portrait of my nephew and the whole thing popped immediately. Anyone else ever get called out on something so basic that you felt stupid for not seeing it?
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felix15524d ago
It's wild how one basic fix changes everything about the work.
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charles_chen9324d ago
My buddy Mike told me his whole setup was a mess till he moved a single cable. Fixed his latency and now he's actually winning games, wild how that works.
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