Color-Image-Composition

COLOR

ž  Color  is the visual perceptual property corresponding in humans to the categories called red, green, blue and others.

ž  Ideas can be communicated through color without the use of either written or verbal language, and emotional response to individual colors alone or in combinations often predictable.

ž  Colors evoke specific emotional responses. For example, red can be powerful, exciting, passionate, and daring. To develop an accurate response to the language of color, it is first necessary to understand the harmony of the color, which means knowing what colors to use and in what order and proportion to create a desire mood, to communicate an idea.

How to use color

Working with color to achieve intended results can be a challenge, but it can also be fun! Before learning what colors to use in order to achieve the best results, one must first understand some basic color terms. Each primary, secondary, and tertiary color is at level of full saturation, or brightness, which means that there is no black, white, or gray added. Color is described in terms of value, which is the lightness or darkness of a color, or the relative amount of white or black in a color.

Primary, secondary, and tertiary

The process

ž  STEP 1:

       Clearly define the results you want to achieve with color.

ž  STEP 2

       Select a main color that reflects the needs of the project.

ž  STEP 3

       Select a color scheme based on the choice of the central hue.

ž  STEP4

       Refine the available color choices in terms of the particular project or individual sensibility.

Aspects of color

ž  The aspects, or qualities of color, refer to colors and color combinations that evoke certain emotional responses. Light and dark is the basic distinction. Without sunlight or artificial light, there is no color. The following aspects of color contain color combinations that exist in harmony with each other.

COMPOSITION

ž  In the visual arts — in particular painting, graphic design, photography and sculpture — composition is the placement or arrangement of visual elements or ingredients in a work of art, as distinct from the subject of a work. It can also be thought of as the organization of the elements of art according to the principles of art.

ž  The term composition means 'putting together,' and can apply to any work of art, from music to writing, that is arranged or put together using conscious thought.

ž  In graphic design and desktop publishing, composition is commonly referred to as page layout. 

How to make a composition design

ž  Set the character

ž  Set the pattern

ž  Decide the form type

ž  Control the repetition

ž  Set a good layout

ž  Set the direction

ž  Set the size

ž  Set the color

How to make an aesthetic composition design

ž  Composition is the comparison of one part to another

ž  Design is an action with the aim to explain something, and

ž  Aesthetic means the values of the characteristic and sense.

ž  So, how to make an aesthetic composition design, is we have to know how to control the comparison of a design, to reach the beauty of characteristic.

IMAGE

ž  Image in design usually has a function to make a more clear picture of what this design try to explain to those who see it.

ž  Image has to has a good connect with the things that tried to be explained, which means, when we want to use an image for our design, we have to make sure that the image suit to the things that being explain in our design.

 Sources:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Composition_%28visual_arts%29