There is another way to make a colour look more powerful, by playing with the same colour or tone and the same amount of Black, but by changing the Saturation. When I want a colour to be more present on an image, I pick the colour and just give it more saturation, which is a great way to create volume, and certainly makes the picture more attractive, without changing the overall Contrast, and/or the dark and light setup of the picture. When a colour is surrounded by the same colour but with a higher saturation, it looks more “alive” and stronger (Fig.05).
Fig.05
The combination of both systems provides many options and some very nice results, and gives us the opportunity to understand colours, and their possibilities, a little better. I used both systems for this image, and Fig.06 and 07 better show this. The last image describes how I would like him to look when he is preparing to fight, which was just for fun but I think is an important part in bringing more background to the concept of the character.
