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Now that we know how the color wheel works and how color harmonies work

and how different colored modes work.

We can now go ahead and start making color palettes.

So a color palette is going to be a confined number of colors that

you're going to use in your design.

And it will often be based on one of the color harms.

Sometimes a color palette will be given you by a client or the

business that you've worked for.

For example, if you work for a corporate brand, they probably have a branding guide

that tells you exactly what colors to use.

And those will normally include hexadecimal codes.

Like we talked about in the last video that you can just

put into your design program.

If you want to create your own color palette, it's good

to use some rules to do it.

And it's nice to have a tool to help you get those rules and then massage the color

palette to be where you want it to be.

So.

Website is called color.adobe.com.

And it's a free resource provided by Adobe so that you can go

ahead and create color palettes.

They actually bought a website that did this called cooler and

then have incorporated it into their creative cloud software.

But this happens to be free.

If you just go to the web.

So you can see that you have a color wheel in the middle here, and then

the colored swatches along the bottom.

And that's often how we refer to colors as swatches, going back to, you know, like

paint swatches that you might find in the hardware store or something like that.

And you can change these by actually moving the circles on the color wheel.

You don't need to use color.adobe.com.

There are other sites that do something similar to this is

just one that I find really cool.

He can see if I grabbed this and move it.

It will change the colors as we go along.

And it's yeah.

You know, harmony to do this.

And if we look over on the left-hand side, we can see where these harmony rules are.

And this is analogous, which you probably guessed already.

So it's just taking them right next to each other.

And you can see that it's doing a five colors.

Color palette on this website.

They always come in five colors.

So that's just the way this website works, but you can do different things.

Now, if we switch this to monochromatic, you're going to see that suddenly

that line just becomes straight.

Right.

And what it's doing is it's just selecting those tints tones and shades

that go along with the same color.

And so say we wanted some yellow monochromatic.

We could just drag over here.

To find something that we like in the yellow range, and it's just

going to kind of solve that for us.

Now, then if we come here to triad, it immediately jumps out

to give us three different colors.

And because it's working with five, it gives us two shades as well.

But the three colors in the middle are really the part of the tread.

So you can see this looks very similar to things that we've seen before.

Okay.

Then there is complimentary colors.

So of course we get all the complimentary colors that we've seen previous.

And then there's a bunch of other ones like split complimentary things that

get a little bit more complicated.

You remember?

I said, there are lots of ways to do this, but those are the ones that we've

already talked about before are analogous, monochromatic, triad, and complimentary.

And when you do this, you can see that it is showing you the RGB values down

here, and it's giving you the hex codes.

So this is the easiest way.

To go about doing this.

You can just go ahead and copy your hex codes and take them into

whatever program you're using.

Most programs will take hex codes, but if they don't, you

also have the RGB values here.

And if you go over here, you can actually switch to CNYK or HSB.

So you can always take those values into whatever program you're using to create.

Another thing that you might do is take a screenshot of these swatches and then just

go ahead and bring that screenshot in.

And if your program has an eyedropper tool, you can go

ahead and grab that as well.

And it's really important that you work.

Pallet like this and that you try to limit yourself to just

a few colors in your design.

I know we talked about this before, but it's really important to understand,

and it can be really difficult to do this when you're first starting out

as a designer, because it can feel very limiting, but having constraints

helps to improve your creativity and using a limited color palette helps

people to better understand what you're trying to convey in your designs.

So really try to stick to just a few colors.

So even if you're getting a color palette, Say five colors like this,

you can in a triadic color scheme, just stick to, you know, maybe the three

main colors or something like that.

Also remember straight.

He was like, this can be really overwhelming.

So you can always drag this down to get into a more pastel range.

Just depends on what you're going for.

Always think about what the color is going to convey now, doing this

and creating your own is great.

But sometimes even easier is to click on this explore tab up

here and find color palettes that people have already made for you.

So if I'm doing some vintage work, I can just search vintage and I'll find color.

That people have already made that convey that vintage feeling.

You can see that, oh, some of these are drawn out of pictures, like, oh, okay.

This one's awesome.

I like this one.

And it's drawn from this image.

Right.

An image that already had a good color pot.

They're just drawing that out.

And then here you get the hex codes.

If you want to get other codes, you come down here to your color modes

and you can get those right there.

So it makes it super easy to get different colors.

So spend some time on this website or on Pinterest, or there's a bunch

of different color swatch website.

Where you can get different theme ideas or make your own theme.

And then you just bring that in and work with it.

I just can't stress how important it is to start working from a color theme.

And one of your assignments for this class is to make two color themes.

And when I say, make two color themes, you don't have to make them yourself.

You just need to find two that you.

And you're going to post a picture of those swatches.

They can be here from this website.

You can just click on it and take a screenshot and do that.

Or you can take a screenshot of your color palette in whatever program

you're working in, where you can just make squares in the program and

fill them each with the right color.

It doesn't matter how you get there.

You just need to.

Two different color palettes.

Those color palettes should range between three and five

or six colors at the maximum.

So make sure that you go ahead and do that.

And then you will be using these color palettes to change the

colors of a design that you've made for the last part of the year.