Match Color in Photoshop

To be honest, when I first heard about the 'Match Color' function in Photoshop, I never really considered the creative possibilities. Simply put, 'Match Color' takes the color values from one image and applies them to another. I recently came across an interesting Photoshop tutorial that uses famous paintings to create color palettes for your photography. By keeping a small archive of favorite paintings (or photography) on your hard drive, you can use them as a valuable resource to add some extra drama or dynamics to your existing photographs.

You can view the full tutorial in detail here.


Here's a couple of quick examples of this technique on one of my photographs:



(Original Image)



Here's the first example, using the color values from a Gustav Klimt painting:



(Color Source Image)



(Resulting Image)


And here's another example using an illustration by Arthur Rackham:



(Color Source Image)



(Resulting Image)