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Show different ways to come up with color schemes.
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Scheming on Colors
Show different ways to come up with color schemes.
When to use
When trying to develop color schemes for a design you shouldn't feel limited to one method. Here are a few ways aside from using Adobe Color CC that you can get inspiring color palettes.
Instructions
- Create a Pinterest profile and start pinning inspiration or use books and magazines to give you ideas.
- Download some stock images just for the use of sampling colors and seeing the different values and ranges that you can sample.
- Open one of your images in Illustrator
- Grab the Rectangle Tool (M) and create a box off to the side of your image
- Switch to the Eyedropper Tool (I) and sample a color from the image
- Create additional squares and sample different colors until you have four to six options
Hints & tips
- Typically it's good to narrow it down to 4-6 colors
- Don't feel limited to using only Pinterest or stock photos
- Pinterest allows you to have secret boards or public boards to share inspiration
- 00:05 Now aside from just using Adobe Color to generate ideas and
- 00:08 look at color schemes, we can also take images ourselves from our own photographs.
- 00:13 We can use books as design resources and maybe take a picture of the page and
- 00:17 scan it in.
- 00:18 But if you wanna do something a little bit faster and
- 00:21 easier, this is also a good time to use a website like Pinterest.
- 00:24 Now, I know I mentioned this in the beginning of the lessons,
- 00:27 that I like to use this for gathering inspiration and reference.
- 00:30 But it's also a really great way to take a look at different color schemes and
- 00:34 see how they are applied to different brands.
- 00:36 And you can really get a sense of what these look like together when they're used
- 00:40 in combination with one another.
- 00:42 And the next thing is that a lot of time you'll see
- 00:45 kind of pellets that are already work pretty successfully.
- 00:47 So it takes a lot of a little of a guess work, but if you do wanna
- 00:52 find something and just generates my ideas pretty quickly, this is a great way to go.
- 00:57 So in addition just using Pinterest for inspiration and
- 01:01 reference, you can also use for things like this.
- 01:04 And take a look at some cool colors, warm colors, or elegant colors.
- 01:10 Pretty much anything you wanna look for, you should be able to find in here.
- 01:15 Another way that you can do this is to download some photos of your own.
- 01:18 I've just kind of grabbed a few stock photos here from Deposit Photos.
- 01:23 And if I just create a rectangle on top, I can just use my eye dropper tool, and
- 01:28 just sample some colors directly from some of these images.
- 01:32 And this is yet another way that you guys can start to develop some color palettes
- 01:36 and start thinking about some ideas that you may wanna try out.
- 01:45 Now the nice thing about this is that you can get these kind of earth tone colors
- 01:49 just by sampling the colors from a photograph of the earth.
- 01:52 So it's really pretty self-explanatory, but
- 01:55 you don't have to use all of these colors.
- 01:57 But you can say,
- 01:58 pick a few of these out and then try them out as you apply them to the logo design.
- 02:04 And you can also take some photos from fields, from deserts,
- 02:08 from the beach, pretty much anything that your heart desires.
- 02:12 You can just come in here,
- 02:14 maybe sample some colors from a few different parts of the images.
- 02:17 Couple of light colors, couple of dark colors,
- 02:19 and that's really all you would need.
- 02:22 So it's yet another way that you can come in here and quickly get some colors going.
- 02:26 And it's interesting, too, when you kinda look at the colors that make up the photo
- 02:30 side by side and see which ones are working and which ones aren't, right?
- 02:35 But especially when you're using real life examples like this, it can be interesting,
- 02:39 even if you're just supplying these to large areas of color.
- 02:45 It's just about giving you guys about few different options and
- 02:48 ideas for possibilities, right?
- 02:51 So don't feel like you only have to use Adobe Color,
- 02:53 don't feel like you only have to use Pinterest.
- 02:56 You can sample colors from real photos,
- 02:59 from your own photos, from books, pretty much anything.
- 03:03 And color is everywhere, it's just about kind of paying attention and
- 03:07 trying to find harmony in all the colors around us, right?
- 03:11 So there's just a few quick ways.
- 03:13 And then I have this photo here of the desert that I thought had some pretty cool
- 03:17 colors going on, especially in the sky like sunset photos and things like that.
- 03:22 And it may not be the best approach for
- 03:24 what we're doing because I don't think that this color
- 03:28 scheme will particularly work for a bull mascot, but you never know.
- 03:33 You could find a couple of colors in here that are nice to have and
- 03:37 nice additions to whatever we're going to be applying.
- 03:41 So you may only end up using one or two of these colors, but
- 03:45 it's a good way to start generating some ideas.
- 03:48 So I may save actually some of these from these photos here that
- 03:53 we've sampled, and see if we can get any of them to work in our mascot logo design.
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