USEFUL COLOUR TIPS

HOW CAN YOU GET THE BEST COLOUR SELECTION IN ELEMENTS?

01 AVERAGE BLUR

You can create your own average colour by making a selection and going to Filter > Blur > Average. Now pick colours from specific places across your photo; do this on a duplicated layer if you don’t wish to ruin the original photo.

02 BRUSHES

Sometimes a project uses the same few colours over and over. Creating a colour palette is the best solution for this; on a new layer, grab a brush and make dots with your colours. Now just colour pick these dots.

03 ADOBE COLOR

Adobe Color (color.adobe.com) is a really useful resource for any artist needing to create a colour palette from scratch quickly, especially if you’re looking for the all of your colours to follow a specific colour rule.