Our country attaches great importance to the protection of intangible cultural heritage. As an important cultural carrier, the unique colors, patterns and shapes of traditional opera costumes constitute the core visual symbols, how to effectively inherit the essence of the culture, while achieving innovative development, has become an urgent problem to be solved. Therefore, from the perspective of intangible cultural heritage protection, this paper discusses the inheritance and innovation path of opera costume elements in the Visual communication, this paper puts forward innovative inheritance methods from three dimensions: color and cultural translation, form Reconstruction and technology application, aiming to provide practical reference for the living inheritance of opera costume culture.