And let's try to find a Hugh, let's try to go for kind of a gold.
Hugh, we're going to move down here, it's going to be somewhere between orange and yellow is gold
is somewhere between orange and yellow, and we're going to add a little bit of darkness to it.
But a little bit of gray is kind of how you find gold.
So right about here.
So you notice it's got a little gray little little white, little black.
So it's got a little tone tint shade all in there.
So it's kind of got this richness to it.
It's got if you look at the system like here, you could see it's got a little bit of everything.
It's kind of got a nice equal ink.
So that's how you kind of get those more neutral colors is there's not one color that's dominant over
the other.
They kind of all have a little bit of the different inks was going to click, OK, that's a nice gold
color that we picked right away.
And let's build everything off of this.
So what we can do is do what we did before.
Add a little lightness.
Is adding different do an white.
This can go a little darker, so let's get our base to.
And let's go a little darker.
So what we want to do is we want to find a really good pairing color.
So what about we have a warm color already?
What have we paired it with?
A cooler color?
What if we kind of got a blue?
But let's do the same thing we did with the gold and add a little bit of gray, a little bit of light.
So we're kind of staying in the center just like we did before.
So both colors will have a similar profile where they have a little gray, white and black.
Let's click on OK, so we have this nice kind of royal purple color and we can do different various
shades of this intense.
And like before, we don't have to use all of these in our main color palette, it's great to have secondary
colors and options and off whites that we can use.
So you could see how we can start to build a really nice color palette.
So let's say we want to kind of stay softer, maybe eliminate these last two.
Maybe we make that a little softer.
But still, Dr..
There we go, so now we kind of have this nice, softer color palette and what's great about Adobe Illustrator,
and you'll learn a lot about this when we focus on software, as I'm going to select this whole bottom
row and let's say I'm not very happy with purple and gold.
Let's say I want to do grey and go up to edit.
Edit colors, and I'm just going to convert to greyscale, and then now we have kind of a gray scale
with the gold or you can go select all of these object or edit edit colors.
And we're going to go to adjust color balance and click on Preview.
And you can kind of try out some different colors just to kind of see what could go really well and
as I'm adding a little green to the blue, just a little bit, not much.
I'm getting this wonderful blue softness here and I don't really like that color, but that's OK, because
we can drag this one over and take that color and add a little light to it.
There we go.
So that could be another really wonderful, soft, kind of elegant, high end color palette, so different
from that super high contrast, bright, vivid color palette.
And you can repeat this over and over.
So we have kind of these two bases.
We can continue and do a couple other ones as well and find out, OK, we have gold, we have as blue.
We can double click here and find out what would go really well with here.
I mean, obviously, pink would probably not be a good pairing with that, but we have kind of some
warm tones, soft tones and kind of this blue.
You know, it'd be nice to get something really neutral in there.
So maybe we can kind of try.
And it could be as neutral as grey.
Right, so we can have gray with this color palette and we can have different shades and tones of gray,
if you ever want to do gray scale, it's all going to be on this left side.
This is all gray sales of white to black.
So you have these two strong colors and then do something neutral with it makes a little more sense
because when you start to get three really strong colors competing, it starts to be difficult.
So that's why I made this neutral instead of purple or yellow or green.
None of those are going to really pair really well because you have such strong colors here.
So there we go.
There's kind of a more subtle color palette.
So hopefully this exercise helps you kind of get into understanding how do you actually select the colors?
How do I start the basis of building a color palette?
But understanding how to go lighter and darker and a different contrast is a big key until learning
how to build color palettes.
And I wanted to demonstrate how this works in Photoshop.
So I have the color panel open and eager to learn all about this a little bit later when you get into
the technical side of the software.
But this is kind of how instead of the huge cube, you have lots of different options and Photoshop
of how to display the color wheel.
So here's the huge cube.
This is what we did in Adobe Illustrator.
So this will look very familiar to you.
We just did all this.
But you can also go down to the classic color wheel and that they just recently revamped this.
Adobe has changed this in the last couple of years.
And now you have this triangle.
So same thing with the cube.
We're adding white tent shade, black pepper hue to the right, and then you can change your hue by
going around the color.
Wills's is just a really nice handy color picture picker.
You're going to also see this an affinity designer and affinity photo.
They have a very similar triangle color wheel selection course.
There's greyscale slider.
We can pick a color and and do the greyscale.
There's a lot of different options here to explore, but I mostly use the hue cube and the color wheel.
Those are going to be the two that we're going to use the most in graphic design and in design projects.
But I wanted to show you that as an option, you can always change that in Adobe Photoshop or Affinity
Designer or affinity photo.