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Setting a base color and using basic color harmonies

Setting a base color and using basic color harmonies - Adobe Color Tutorial

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Setting a base color and using basic color harmonies

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- [Instructor] While you're building your color theme, Adobe Color offers you something called color harmony rules. Now, color rules are mathematical adjustments, which will move the colors on the color wheel in such a way that a certain relationship or a harmony is achieved. And this harmony is always based on something called the base color. Now, here in my screen, you can see that color swatch B has this white triangle here at the bottom and this means that this color has now been assigned the base color. So if I click the color D swatch and I click that white icon here at the bottom, now D is set as the base color and if you pay close attention, you can see that that base color icon is actually visible within the color wheel itself as well. Now, I have switched my color mode to HSV, so again, the hue, which moves from zero to 360 degrees counterclockwise across this color wheel. I have my saturation, which is the…

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