Composing with color

      In the first article its basically an introduction to color and the basic elements. For instance it talks about the three variables of color which are hue, saturation and lightness. From playing with my own photos i've seen what these are but it was kind of nice to have them defined. It also talked about how the attitude of a photographer working with color contrasts greatly with the attitude of one working with black and white. I thought it was interesting to read how a photographer who likes to photograph in black and white goes about looking for shots. They make a significant effort to see the black and white tones in what their looking at to see like what shade of gray is this color going to be? or  is this going to be black, is this going to be white? They have to try to search for those where as someone composing with color, though we do see in color there's a difference between what we see and what the camera sees, so they as well have to look at the scene and the elements that are in it.
      In part 2 of composing with color it goes over controlling color in photoshop, color balance, and color palette. In photoshop your able to play with the three variables of color individually.  In color balance you have to balance out the overall color. The goal of balancing is to get a neutral color truly neutral without a colorcast. The color palette is about selecting a range of colors that are going to be used in the photograph.
      Part three is about working with saturation. It talks about how saturation is important but at the sane time its over used. Over using any of the 3 variables is not really good for your photograph either. Mentions that saturation is more of a problem with raw files, because their naturally desaturated, so we tend  to oversaturate to get the color back in there. It explains global saturation Vs. local saturation. Global is saturation throughout the whole photo and local is saturation in a certain area of the photo.
      In part 4 it starts out with talking about memorizing colors in the field. Basically in this part it goes over the other parts again but with photographs showing you the different ways saturation works and global vs. local saturation.  A lot of repeat information.