Improving Photographic Color For Your Landscape Painting

Photographs can be a great resource for our paintings, but they can have a lot of limitations when it comes to color and values. Let's take a look at how to improve on those things when we're using photos.
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[@sanjeevhappy99]

It was really helpful.

[@philstarke.artist]

glad it was helpful!

[@stopthatluca]

🙂👍

[@luzaguzman6306]

Love your videos, especially the information about the colors mix to obtain what you need. thanks a lot for sharing your knowledge.

[@philstarke.artist]

You are so welcome!

[@user-so6yq3ks6j]

Very helpful. Color is always "tricky".

[@philstarke.artist]

It really is!

[@KathyBrooksArt]

So interesting Phil, thanks!

[@philstarke.artist]

You’re welcome Cathy. Glad you enjoyed it.

[@taketimetoseait396]

Valuable lesson..thank U...learned a lot today .

[@philstarke.artist]

Glad to hear that

[@mikemarbach2418]

Great info Phil, I use a lot of photos, and I get caught up in the photo values and struggle with color also. Thanks for your help. Really like your videos.

[@philstarke.artist]

Hi Mike, glad it was helpful. Photos can be tricky. It helps to do some small quick color studies to think through color choices.

[@sierragold]

Great tutorial. I hope you do more of these!

[@philstarke.artist]

Thanks, that’s the plan to keep doing them. Glad you enjoyed it.

[@sierragold]

@@philstarke.artist Awesome!

[@gary313]

Concepts would be better explained if you showed split screen of photo and finished painting.

[@ccosmoss]

definitely 👍