Make Hundreds of Color Palettes from 1 COLOR! - Design Tutorial

Adobe Photoshop CC 2020 tutorial. What is the best way to build color palettes in Adobe Photoshop 2020? How do you combine colors? How do you know if your colors are any good? In this design tutorial, illustrator and animator, Greg Gunn, walks you through his easy process for making color palettes that work.

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[gotcrushonmyself]

when he did the hue/saturation thing
me: that won't work
when he picked the colors and made color palette
me: what the heck this looks awesome!

[manchest]

Man, I am so frustrated with my university at this point. WHY WON'T THEY TEACH THIS GOD DAMMIT

[IgorQuadrosvmq]

definitely the best video about color I've ever seen. Go Greg!

[IrshadAhamed]

Greg, A very worth 11 minutes, A big lesson in a short video.

[niranjangupta]

This make me more confident about picking a color pallet. Mind blown.

[alexis]

Honestly, I have to recommend this video to my University program Director : it'll so much help the first year students to perform with colors.

[Andrus]

this is brilliant! i feel like i discovered the secret of life. thank you!!!

[Ash_scribbles]

Throughout this whole video, my responses were loudly escalating. Starting from "oh that's a clever idea" to "ohhhh no he didn't?!" that's amazing! Thank you Greg!

[jpmatar]

I have always struggled with finding the right color This video just shows the logic behind creating your own!!

[AmieB]

Every minute I spend with Chris and Greg makes me one minute more bitter towards my 4-year University for failing to teach me these critical lessons, taking my money and throwing me out into the curb to fend for myself in the real world unprepared.

[flowersafeheart]

Thanks!! I love color!! I'm quite into the 16 seasonal color types (based on a person's natural body colors). To make a palette with that system, I think they'd basically stick to only pairing tints with tints for Springs (tints = add white or maybe off-whites to hues = pastels), shades with shades for Summers (shades = add gray to hues), tones with tones for Autumns (tones = add black or maybe other dark colors to hues), hues with hues for Winters (hues are pure). All within similar levels of warm/cool undertone, soft/bright intensity, and light/deep value.

For example: a Soft Autumn palette is I guess only tones and/or shades - but only ones that are light to medium value, warm to neutral undertone, and very soft intensity. It can borrow some colors from its neighboring palettes of Soft Summer and Warm Autumn. Soft Autumn borders on Summer and is the most soft, light, subtle, gentle, muted/faded of the Autumns.

[jatillano]

This is brilliant! I've struggled creating color schemes for years. Often downloading ready-made ones. This helped a lot. Thanks!

[QuanticDreamer]

Lazy me: * print-screens the 9x3 color grid *

[beatjunkybg]

This is life changing for a graphic designer who was always a little bit undecisive about colors, thank you!

[lailanabuaziz]

This is probably THE BEST colour palette tutorial I've ever watched! Simple and sassy 😎

[joeeintha]

Your humour and quality contents keeps brightening our days. Keep it up dude!

[cervidae]

it might sound silly, but one of my favourite quick cheats for palettes (esp w/ colours im not as confident with using, like reds&umbers), is to grab a simple circle brush and turn the hue/saturation jitter up to 30-50%, draw a few lines, and then pick out the colours i need. works like a charm for me!

making palettes with an analogous hue shift like the one Greg made for this video is also a REALLY good technique for shading and rendering pixel art! in my 10+ years of pixeling, ive found that it runs on a slightly different rule set within colour theory than larger scale digital art- leaning more heavily on optical illusion to make colour choices make sense to your eyes. if you want a peek into what im talking about, keysmash a few letters in black on mspaint and then zoom all the way in! you'll be surprised how many colours it takes to create black text

[philsanders]

Greg feels like my slightly awkward friend who comes out of himself when you mention the little niches he loves.

My favorite guy

[lambkin]

This excites me so much, I’m so glad I found this video. Can’t wait to try this out, thanks Greg💪

[hfortenberry]

This was fantastic! The struggle is REAL and this is exactly what I needed! Thank you!