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Understanding color theory

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Understanding color theory

In this movie, I want to introduce you to some very basic concepts of Color Scheme management and introduce you also, to some resources for learning more about how you can work with and use color in your own sketches and your own visualizations. The first thing I want to do is introduce you to three different web-based tools, all of which have fabulous resources and you can try each one for different purposes. The first one that we've looked at before is Adobes Kuler and it's at kuler.adobe.com, and what you get here when you first click in, is you see a bunch of Color Schemes and in fact, you can just come and click on one and it fills up the entire page. Click back and you see that you have a whole collection of palettes that you can try. What's more significant is that you can click on one of these and you can get all sorts of information you need, for instance; the Hex codes, the HSV, the RGB codes. But watch also what you can do. One of these is set as the base color. It's this…

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