Complementary colors are ones which are opposite on the color wheel.
By Lacie Lynnae
They appear often in nature and are called complementary because they do just that, complement one another. They work well and make strong compositions.
Water and fire by wim denijs on 500px
Examples of common color combinations that work are:
- Orange and blue
- Yellow and purple
- Red and green
Here are 24 examples of images that use complementary colors for a powerful composition:
Flower 03 by MaX Smiles on 500px
The Concert Hall by Jürgen Lehmann on 500px
The Red Dress by Ken Thai on 500px
Cloud Atlas by Meer Sadi on 500px
Silent Witness by Moni on 500px
Cosmos by Julia Carvalho on 500px
Fickle macro by Stolpulus II on 500px
Dream sailing by Roberto D'Antoni on 500px
Calm Sunset in El Nido by Sunny Merindo on 500px
Heart of October by Mihai Dulu on 500px
Norah by Suzy Mead on 500px
A colorful morning by Martijn Barendregt on 500px
Perfect Cuteness by Gurdyal Singh on 500px
BayBridgeBlueFull by Bill Nichols on 500px
Star Chamber by Joseph Rossbach on 500px
pondering by Alex Serres on 500px
attractor by Pascal Faber on 500px
white eye by Woody L. Chu on 500px
I am not a Lady Bug 
by Gideon James Draviam on 500px
delicious pomegranate cocktail by Oxana Denezhkina on 500px
…complementary colors… by Marko Grubisic on 500px
Complementary colors by Mauro Moroni on 500px
Red sea by Vitaliy Sokol on 500px
Yellow Butterfly by alaine on 500px
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