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Creating Contrast

• Value and Color

• Large and small: placing mass in space

Simulating the third dimension:

3 ways to suggest depth

• Look for these qualities in images or you may add page elements that use these techniques.

• Perspective lines that retreat into single or multiple vanishing points

• Variations of tone and color: think of an ancient Chinese watercolor painting of mountains that can show distance without perspective

• Isometric views: the cube is a square, rotated at 30 degrees

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