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LynnG

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Today in my newsletter I was thinking about colour.

For me, the main ingredient in a visually appealing photobook page (especially travel albums) is colour cohesion.

Somehow, I can nearly always find a way to tie the photos of a day together using colour to make a page that ‘works’.

There are three ways I do that:

  1. Cropping the photos in a way that reduces any distracting clashing colours (lots of examples on the pages below)

  2. Using colour overlays/ filters/ blending to change the ‘temperature’ of the photos to better match (see the ‘old’ photos of the Berlin wall and of me at Checkpoint Charlie in the page above, and the blended in photo of the boats in the ‘Photowalk’ page below )

  3. Pulling a colour that is common to most of the photos to use as a design element.
In the page above, that meant pulling the red from the fire engine, store umbrellas and graffiti to use for the doodled border. (Bonus points for using the colour of the former Soviet Union, of which East Berlin was part!)

In the pages below, it includes using:

  • the soft blues of the sky and water of the sunset walk we took

  • the hot pink of the Berlin graffiti

  • the pinks of the clothes and the black walls of the costume display at the Madrid gallery

  • the bright colours cropped in on in the random Madrid pictures


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Love this Lynn! Great tips and your layout examples are inspiring!
 
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