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Creating a basic theme - Adobe Color Tutorial

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Creating a basic theme

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- [Instructor] Now it's time to create our very first color theme. Now, let me go over the main options available to you to create that theme yourself. Now, here on the left hand side, I have something called the Color Harmony Rules. Now, I'm not going to cover these rules in this specific video, but we'll get to those very, very quickly. Now, of course, the main thing here in the center of the screen is the color wheel, and the color wheel represents the entire color spectrum available to me in the current color mode that is selected here at the bottom left of the corner. Now, if I switch this from RGB to say, CMYK, it will switch to CMYK values. I can do the exact same thing here and choose something like HSV, which stands for hue, saturation, and value, which in practice is basically something like brightness or lightness. And then the last one we have is LAB colors. Now, when you take a look at both RGB and CMYK values, if you want to make this very technical, then I should tell you that RGB and CMYK are what we call device dependent color spaces, which means that these are always dependent on a certain output device. RGB for screens, CMYK for specific printers, but there's really no ICC or color profile associated with this RGB and CMYK color space. In other words, Adobe Color is using a generic color space, which means that if you want to reuse these swatches and you bring these into existing applications, let's say Photoshop or InDesign, there is a chance that these colors might look a little bit different when you import these. And this is just because these colors will be adapted to the actual color space in which you want to apply and use these colors using your design application. Now, if everything I've just explained to you does not make any sense, that is absolutely fine. Color management is a pretty complicated subject. Just go with the flow in that case. Now, as I said earlier, here in the left hand side we have a color mode that we can select, which has a direct impact here on the color values that I can select. Now, of course, I can just come in and then use these sliders to change the color value of a very specific swatch, or I can just come in and just type in the values myself, if that would be easier. Now, if you want to work in a more visual way, then nothing is stopping you from just taking this and dragging this across the color wheel to come here and select the color that you want like to have in your theme. It's just a matter of clicking that swatch and then just moving that specific item here on the color wheel itself.

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