If you have touched any computer based photo editing programs,
you might have realized that photos are nothing more than zeros
and ones.
Everything comes back to math... even your good old Color wheel.
Let's assume that the color wheel is a 360° circle... The
perfect matching complementary color will be on the opposite
side (180°) In Photoshop just hit (CTRL+I) and/or anything
called "invert colors" in other programs.
If you wanted a three color layout, you would divide the wheel
by 3...
In Photoshop, (CTRL+U) and choose +120 for the second color,
and -120 for the third. (in other programs look for anything,
called HUE modification)
If you wanted a closer matching trio (Analogous), you simply
have to give your Hue a similar positive and negative push 360/12
main colors=30°... But I prefer a ±25 spread.
When
in doubt for additional color (title and/or journaling)... Black
or white will normally do the job for you!
Here's
a few examples all done from the same "starting color"
Just change the Hue, Saturation and Lightness
of your main color for the same schemes
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