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The use of "Spot Colour" in photography ?


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I have never been a fan of "spot colour" in photography and had therefore never tried it before. I just happened to be sorting some photo files out yesterday on my passport hard drive when for some reason I thought of that technique when looking at a picture of Beverly Minster I had taken. Its certainly not a difficult technique to apply but I still cannot decide if I like it or not.

 

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What do you think ? It certainly has its uses to the professionals as they can highlight products using it. I am still sitting on the fence on this one :rolleyes:

 

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That works for me Steve :)

 

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Some would say that spot colour is soooooo yesterday.

 

I would say that ANY edit you find imroves the impact is valid, as long as YOU feel it achieves an object

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I have never been a fan of "spot colour" in photography and had therefore never tried it before.

 

What do you think ? It certainly has its uses to the professionals as they can highlight products using it. I am still sitting on the fence on this one :rolleyes:

 

John

 

For me, I think it would look better if the rest of the pic was sepia rather than B&W, but that's just me.and I might change my mind if I saw it. :unsure:

 

Is that really Beverly or is it Beverley? ;)

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Looks interesting and I do use spot colour myself for certain images but I'd like to see the full colour image as well to compare.

 

As an example, heres a similar one from me (only a quick conversion mind)

yorkminster1.jpg

 

and the full colour version

yorkminster2.jpg

 

personally i prefer the full colour jobby myself in the above instance.

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I know what spot colour is in CMYK printing. What is it in photography?

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Snakey1,

 

First one is more impressive.

 

Snatcher,

 

I like it. It would be really intense if you could produce the illusion of distance like a stereoscope does. I think that's the right effect I'm suggesting? The effect/affect of the railroad tracks coming together in a distance. What's that called? If you tried to make it look like a half mile to the colUoUr. (dam "U" goes in there somewhere).

 

Play with my perceptive vision - dark to light to color - or - light to dark to color.

 

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Here you go Ayjay,the original of Beverley - spelt correctly this time :bigemo_harabe_net-163:

 

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