Color
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A color wheel is a tool used to organize color. It is made up of
A color wheel is a tool used to organize color. It is made up of
- Primary colors – Red, Yellow, Blue
- Secondary colors – Orange, Violet, Green. These colors are created by mixing two primaries
- Intermediate (tertiary) colors – Red, Orange, Yellow-Green, Blue-Violet, etc.; Mixing a primary with a secondary creates these colors.
- Complementary colors – are colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel. When placed next to each other, they look bright and when mixed together, they neutralize each other.
- Warm colors are on one side of the color wheel and they give the feeling of warmth (for example: red, orange, and yellow are the color of fire and feel warm)
- Cool colors are on the other side of the color wheel and they give the feeling of coolness (for example: blue and violet are the color of water, and green is the color of cool grass)
In Photoshop, create a color wheel using the directions here.
Keep in mind that the program works with a series of layers like pages that are stacked one on top of another. You may find sometimes that you can’t seem to access some shape or make a change in the way you want. The reason may be that you are not on the correct layer. To look at the layers, click on WINDOW, then LAYER. |
Upload your completed Color Wheel to your shared Google Drive ComArt Folder.
If you finish early, check out this website about why color matters in design.
If you finish early, check out this website about why color matters in design.