Neutral colors
Neutral colors or earth tones are not seen on most color wheels. Black, gray, whites are neutral. Browns, beiges and tans are sometimes neutral too. Neutral colors can be made by mixing: black and white, complementary colors.
Neutral Colors: Neutral colors are hues lacking bold color pigment. Flesh tones, greys, black and white are all considered neutrals.
neutral color:
In RGB color mode, equal amounts of red, green, and blue make a neutral color.
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Neutral color. In image editing's RGB mode, a color in which red, green, and blue are present in equal amounts, producing a gray.
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A neutral color has equal amounts of red, green, and blue and appears as a shade of gray.
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White - neutral color effect
Blue - creates cool tones
Silver - creates neutral tones but brighter than white
These changes in light tones are based on color temperature and white balance.
By rotating the flash head and pointing it at a reflective, neutral colored area, such as a white ceiling, you can bounce the light off a larger area, thereby softening the light which reaches the subject.
Most video and digital still cameras can adjust for color temperature by zooming into a white or neutral colored object and setting the manual "white balance" (telling the camera that "this object is white"); ...
Neutral colors, such as white, black, and the various tones or values of gray, actually absorb almost equal proportions of the colors of light. Varying reflective powers account for their differences.
The Snap Neutral Midtones identifies a near neutral color in the image and adjusts the gamma to make the color neutral. In most cases, it is best to leave this unchecked as this option can cause color shifts in an image.
For truly creative effects, Adobe Camera Raw lets you use an eyedropper to select an object in an image that should be neutral colored.
Adjusting the white balance basically means making sure that a part of the picture that is supposed to be a neutral color does actually contain equal amounts of red, green and blue.
Neutral colors like gray, black, white, and beige are good if the flower is very colorful. If the flower is a neutral color - like the white lilies, above - a more vibrant background color is usually better.
Red-dy for a shoot: This family wanted to wear red--not exactly a neutral color but it worked for them. Note: Although the tops are different the color helps tie the image together visually. Expressions? Poses?
3) Bisecting a color wheel with a straight line defines complements, colors that produce a neutral color when mixed in equal proportions. Increasing one color reduces its complement.
The area is desert, neutral colored with very little vegetation. The sky gives no contrast to the overpowering tans and earth tones.
Gray Component Replacement is an extension of UCR in that it replaces the neutral colors in the image as well as the colored areas with equal amounts of cyan, magenta, and yellow throughout the tonal range of the image.
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achromatic color
a neutral color (white, gray, or black that has no hue).
The G2's built-in pop-up unit does a perfectly decent job. Flash images are usually well exposed and show neutral colors. There is also an AF illuminator lamp on the front of the body to aid the focus in low light.
This poster-like infographic illustrates the debate between the doubters and ardent believers of the 2012 end of the world. The neutral colors of this design emphasis the tongue-in-cheek new-like presentation of this debate.
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Mixing a primary color with its complementary color gives gray (a neutral color).
Our eyes almost instantaneously adjust the color of the light so that neutral colors (white, grey, black) appear neutral. This unconcious, automatic adjustment in our perception of color goes virtually unnoticed.
Black, white and grey are neutral colors and red is a primary color that is warm and bold. However, your model probably does not know a fraction of what you know about composition and light, so persuade the model to consider your options.
This one had high contrast, neutral color, razor sharpness corner to corner, without the need to shift my eyeball anywhere. The difference was absolutely amazing. I looked at the skirt of this fantastic loupe...
The midtone picker in the levels adjustment is the same as a 'white balance' although it uses neutral gray to accomplish neutral color.
Aim for background colors that contrast with the flower: A dark background would work well for pictures of white lilies, for example, while a neutral color would work better for very colorful flowers.
The white point is the location of the purest and lightest white in a color space (also see discussion of color temperature). If one were to draw a line between the white and black points, this would pass through the most neutral colors.
You actually can get very different-looking images if one is done in bright conditions during the day and another at night when the room lamps don't illuminate the bright colors the same. Use neutral colors around your monitor as much as possible.
 See also: Color, Light, Image, Photograph, Camera
  
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