How to Use Colour to Enhance Your Photography

Colour is one of the fundamentals of photography and understanding how to use it, or how not to use it, can instantly enhance your photographs. Whether you're a beginner street photographer or a budding portrait photographer, you'll be able to use the tips and techniques laid out in this class to create more cohesive and interesting images.

In this class, we'll be exploring common colour pairings as well as the connotations that colours can carry, as well as how to implement these theories practically within your photography work -- regardless of your genre of photography.

This class will cover:

• A general understanding of the colour wheel and common terminology related to colour
• The basics of colour theory and colour pairings
• An introduction to colour psychology and the individual messages that colours send
• A behind-the-scenes look at how I incorporate some techniques related to colour theory when shooting portraits
• How to use post-processing (editing) tools in Adobe Lightroom to enhance your photographs and build upon your use of colour techniques

Extra Resources:

If you don't have access to Adobe Lightroom on your desktop, you can also use the Adobe Lightroom Mobile app. This class is a great introduction to it: