I am an Adobe illustrator, and I'm going to demonstrate some ways you can practically create different
color palettes.
And so first, we need to go back and understand our tent and shade and also our tone.
But how do we create that using the color options in design software?
That's exactly what this lesson is going to be about.
So we're starting off with this white, simple swatch and we're going to go ahead and highlighted and
you're going to notice you have your color panel and it's going to be all white.
So we want to do is double click on our swatch, double click it, and you're going to get this panel.
And what this is called is a huge cube.
So we studied before.
The different hues and hues are solid colors.
They don't have any white or gray or black in them.
They're just pure colors.
So what happens in the cube is in the upper right is a pure hue.
So that's going to be pure blue.
When we go over to the left, it's going to slowly add a little bit of tint so you can see how it's
adding a little bit of tint, which is white.
So we're adding white to the hue to get different variations of the hue.
So you'd go all the way over here to get pure white or all the way over to get the pure hue and somewhere
in between to get kind of these lighter tents.
So the same thing with Shade Shade is going to be down here.
So here's a pure hue.
We're going to move our way all the way down.
It's going to get darker and darker as we add more shade, which is black.
So we're adding more black to this until we get to pure black all the way down to the bottom.
And same thing goes for tones.
So as we know, tone is a hue.
But with gray added, instead of black or white, we're going to go diagonally down and it's going to
slowly add a little bit of gray as we move down the Hue Cube.
All the way down here, it's going to go all the way back to pure black who have white, black, pure
hue and all the way down here.
So that's basically how this works.
This is a very common way to pick colors and the dobe software, but also affinity designer and a lot
of other different design softwares.
You're going to see very similar setups with having to pick your color.
So understanding how to kind of pick colors within this huge cube is very important when you're putting
together your color palettes and you'll know how to create a lot of different things.
So we're going to do a little bit of an example here.
We're going to create a monochromatic color scheme here, color palette.
So let's go ahead and pick a pure new color for this example.
So let's double click or Swatch.
And to get a pure hue, we're going to go to the upper right.
Of course, you can do the slider and pick any hue.
This is all pure hues is in the upper right.
We could pick any color we want to go with.
So let's kind of go with.
A blue color, we can always go to color swatches and pick out a perfect sea and white, yellow, red,
green or cyan here as well, but we're just going to stick to a blue color all the way to the upper
right.
So this is going to be a pure hue that we're picking out.
And so now what we're going to do is we're going to just duplicate this slide to the left.
And we're just going to double click this and we're going to slowly move and add a little bit of tint,
which is white, there's going to do that along the way.
Slowly moving this down the way, and he could see a nice.
Pallette.
Developing and then we can do one more and we could do almost pure white, maybe leave a little bit
of hue in there.
And so right now we have this nice, monochromatic all derived from a single hue and just added a little
bit.
Attend to it.
Now we can go the other way so we can go ahead and drag this over.
And now we're going do the opposite and we're going to add a little bit of shade just going down to
the bottom.
Right.
Once you kind of understand how all this works, you'll be able to pick colors pretty easily once you
understand, you know, huge shade tents and kind of how adding black and how adding white can really
change the aspect of a color or a hue in this case all the way down to pretty dark color.
Let's go ahead and just aligning those right here.
So we have tent over here.
We have shade over here.
We have the pure hue right here in the middle.
It's kind of the basics of how this works.
So we're going to do something a little different.
We're going to drag this down.
So we're taking our peer hue and we're going to add a little gray to it this time.
So we're adding a little bit of tone.
So adding a little gray.
All the way down and kind of see how this is working, so we have the gray added, we have the white
added, we have the black added, you could see how we can develop quite an array of monochromatic colors
from these three different aspects.
So let's do one more thing.
Let's drag it up.
And now we're to do something a little different.
So now we're going to go up our huge selection and we're going to slowly change and shift the hue.
So we're going to move this down just a little bit, maybe add a little green.
So this is kind of a new level or you selection.
So now maybe all this makes sense, all this heat is where do you go or do you select the color so we
change the hue color here and the tent and the shade and then the tone added gray to it.
So that's kind of how the basics of how this color, hue or hue cube works.
When you double click this UCU, this is default on Adobe Illustrator.
You can have it on Adobe Photoshop, you can have it on any design program.
You're going to see this kind of YouTube.
And now you know why and when to go and what direction and when to kind of use some of these tabs and
everything.
So once we get into practical projects, I do a lot of practical project works with color.
We're going to be kind of going over this.
But now you understand, you know what direction to go.
It can be a little bit confusing at first to go, OK, well, now how do I, you know, add shade?
How do I attent what what does that matter?
So we're going to take this and another we're going to go in another step forward and we're going to
be creating some basic color palettes and we're going to derive it all from one single huge selection.