10.03.2009, 05:14
There's a number of ways to reduce the garishness of colour.
Brightness/Contrast
Making an image less bright is obvious, but you might need to adjust contrast as well or the colours sometimes appear washed out or too severe.
Hue/Saturation/Lightness
Hue changes the colour bias. You could use it to create desert colours or make a desert green and verdant for instance.
Saturation controls how much colour there is. Reducing it will make the image look more dull and grey, raising it will make the colours more vivid. Usually less saturation is needed in transferring images into IL2 but remember to adjust lightness or the increased greyness might change the brightness of the image.
Do I need to discuss lightness? Making an image lighter will reduce contrast (you could increase contrast or use saturation to compensate)
Gamma
This one is similar to lightness except that saturation doesn't change.
Colour
This one goes by various names and application, but basically you can control how much red, blue, or green your image has. Adjusting the levels will produce startling changes but moving them together is a similar effect to saturation, just a little more detailed.
As you can see, adjusting colours in graphics is a matter of balancing various things to suit your needs.
Brightness/Contrast
Making an image less bright is obvious, but you might need to adjust contrast as well or the colours sometimes appear washed out or too severe.
Hue/Saturation/Lightness
Hue changes the colour bias. You could use it to create desert colours or make a desert green and verdant for instance.
Saturation controls how much colour there is. Reducing it will make the image look more dull and grey, raising it will make the colours more vivid. Usually less saturation is needed in transferring images into IL2 but remember to adjust lightness or the increased greyness might change the brightness of the image.
Do I need to discuss lightness? Making an image lighter will reduce contrast (you could increase contrast or use saturation to compensate)
Gamma
This one is similar to lightness except that saturation doesn't change.
Colour
This one goes by various names and application, but basically you can control how much red, blue, or green your image has. Adjusting the levels will produce startling changes but moving them together is a similar effect to saturation, just a little more detailed.
As you can see, adjusting colours in graphics is a matter of balancing various things to suit your needs.