{"id":589,"date":"2008-05-06T05:00:46","date_gmt":"2008-05-06T13:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/06\/adjusting-map-color\/"},"modified":"2008-05-05T11:28:47","modified_gmt":"2008-05-05T19:28:47","slug":"adjusting-map-color","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/art-and-illustration\/graphic-design\/adjusting-map-color\/","title":{"rendered":"Adjusting map color"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog-images-08\/bowl-w-foliate-decoration.jpg\" alt=\"iranian bowl with foliate decoration, approx. early 13th c.\" height=\"232\" width=\"435\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In <a href=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/2008\/05\/05\/on-the-making-of-maps\/\" title=\"historical map of greater iranian region for a book about persian ceramics\">yesterday&#8217;s discussion of the map for my Persian ceramics book<\/a>, I mentioned that I hadn&#8217;t settled on a map color scheme. Subsequently I decided to pick up the scheme from one of the objects in the book. Shown is a detail of that object, which I&#8217;m using as a section opener.<\/p>\n<p>This is a beautiful fritware bowl with underglaze and overglaze foliate decoration. It dates from 1180-1250 and is thought to come from Rayy or Kashan in Iran. The abstract patterning is unusual on this kind of bowl.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog-images-08\/persian-ceramics-map-2.jpg\" alt=\"spread from persian ceramics book showing map with colors adjusted in photoshop\" height=\"233\" width=\"435\" \/><\/p>\n<p>In order to replicate the object&#8217;s color scheme, I simply adjusted the main hue\/saturation slider in Photoshop until I approximated the reddish brown colors of the dark areas of the bowl. Because the type is not part of the underlying image, it was unaffected. Then I picked up the teal blue color from the bowl with the eyedropper tool. I had made the water areas of the map flat, so they were solid colors. I selected a portion of one and then chose select similar color from the selection menu and filled the selection with the new color.<\/p>\n<p>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In yesterday&#8217;s discussion of the map for my Persian ceramics book, I mentioned that I hadn&#8217;t settled on a map color scheme. Subsequently I decided to pick up&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rightreading.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}