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Quick and Dirty Color Theory
Published: 2010-04-19 00:21:39 +0000 UTC; Views: 120175; Favourites: 5582; Downloads: 3397
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My Quick & Dirty Color Theory Tutorial. That turned out to not be so quick >.> I got absorbed and explained a lot more than I originally intended. LMAO I hope you guys find it useful
More tutorials to come!
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But, your color wheel doesn't have red!
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There's a color between orange and magenta that is sort of orange-magentaish, but it really doesn't look like red to me?
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your monitor colors may be off XD it's a vivid red on my screen.
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no idea, the red in the top 2 circles and in the primary colors list is fine. The orange in the secondary colors list though is very washed out and yellow orange to me, hardly any different than the yellow above it. now I'm going to have to play with it and see if there are any color adjustments to be done..
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This is very helpful! Congratulations on the DD!
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You're very welcome!
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XD welcome. and thank you!
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Fantastic tutorial. Thank you!
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You are most welcome! Thank you so much for the feedback!
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I love to use a lot of colors, so this is very useful! thank you!
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this was very helpful - i've been looking for something like this! thank you so much!
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you are very welcome!
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Very Nice. Thanx for your effort.
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This thing is golden if for no other reason than the shadows and highlights section. For ages I've just been using the Variant slider to make a darker shade of the color for shadows--and now I gloriously know it works better with saturation. Hurrah! Thank you so much for that.
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XD i'm glad you found it helpful :3 and you're very welcome!
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This is super duper useful!
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awwies thank you :3
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That was very helpful, thank you indeed! You're right, there's tons of colour theory out there, but that's where it usually stays - theory. I have steeples of hand-coloured colour wheels from art class, and they were nothing but a passtime, to be honest. Your hints concerning saturation and hue are so much more useful than all of that. Thanks heaps!
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aww thank you for the great feedback! and you're very welcome
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This is very useful! Thanks a lot
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This was excellent and extreamly useful! This helped me a lot!
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awwies, i'm glad you found it useful! thank you for commenting!
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Thanks for this. It really showed me all the things I was doing subconsciously (and messing up subconsciously as well).
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XD you're very welcome!
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Is it your curse to get DDs only for your tutorials 
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lmao don't I know it XD ah well I can't complain - so many people never get DD's at all and I've been blessed with FOUR <3 I'll take what I can get XD
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DA...art skool for people who dont actually want to go to art skool
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haha truer words were never spoken XD I find DeviantART is a lot more helpful than artschool though :3 and a lot more productive. You learn exactly what you want to learn at a pace you want to learn it at.
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Very instructive, thank you
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I could always use some more color theory reminding!
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lmao even I forget sometimes -_- and I have a tutorial on the dang thing. LOL
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Thanks, sometimes I reckon it's fate making you stumble upon things (and persons).
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awwies <3 you're welcome!
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Ahh, this is excellent, actually. It really does give some good insight into colour theory. One thing I would like to ask though is regarding the part where you explain choosing the saturation levels for your lighter and darker tones... You never really clearly state whether the lightest and darkest tones will still be more saturated than your base colour or if somewhere along the line the saturation drops below the original level. How you handle them seems a little more apparent with the highlights, but it would still be a little nice to hear some clarification on it.
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yah for some reason during that section of tutorial my brain flew out the window. generally when I work the lighter half of the palette dips to be a little more saturated than the base color, and then back over to the de-saturated side of things, and the darker half of the palette does the same - think of it like a strange z, with the base color being mid-way down the middle line of the z., the mid-range of colors in your palette (base color and the next lightest and darkest) are the most saturated in your palette, all the others are less saturated EXCEPT the very deepest of the darks which is also saturated (it adds a bit of interest to the deep shadows :3 )
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YAY!! Now I just have to use al those tricks and try to make my pictures look better!! Thank you so much for this tuto, I learned a lot!!
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you are most welcome!
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