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Old 04-08-2004, 05:24 PM   #10
Sharon Knettell Sharon Knettell is offline
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Terry,

When you work with complementary colors it helps if one of the colors dominates, ie bright red with dull green. Also you are dealing with several kinds of green warm and cool. I don't know if the monitor is correct but in the previous picture his jacket is more olivey and her dress is bright blue and the background is an intense green. Disparate greens like this can work in a landscape but is difficult to pull off in a portrait such as this.

I think at this point, to me at least, the best solution would be to keep the dress blue, put him in a navy suit and employ a soft medium blue grey background. A strident green can dull the skintones by comparison whereas a dull grey blue would make them look brighter. The grey blue should be in the same family as the dress color, it seems somewhat of an ultramarine, which means the background blue should not lean towards the green. The accent color, since the blue is more toward a purply blue would be a lovely small touch of yellow. Not a cool yellow but a yellow with some orange in it. His tie could have a the blue of her dress with a yellow stripe.

Try to put some yellow in her necklace. It should work.

I have been in this situation. It can be very frustrating. Put your feet up, have a cup of tea and look at it in the morning.

Sincerely,
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