Digital Media & Techniques

1. color
Theory & Practice

2. COLOR
ColorWheel
Emotional Connections
Harmony & Balance
Contrast &Tension

3. color
There are lots of ways to incorporate
visual style and impact into your digital
art and design.
There are a variety of thought processes
that need to be considered when dealing
with color
1
2 The colors you pick to may help grab your
viewers’ attention, they may help convey the
emotional essence of your art.

4. color
Production issues
CMYK, RGB, Grayscale, etc
1
Contextual balance
Do the color choices work well with each
other?
2
Emotion
Do the color choices work well for the
subject matter?
3
Things to consider

5. color wheel
Some colors work together better than others
READ
Color terminology and theory overview:
http://www.sitepoint.com/color-theory-101-2/

6. color resource
How do I feel when I see color?
READ
General psychology of color:
http://blog.kissmetrics.com/art-of-color-
coordination/

7. color resource
Sort through the various methodologies for
dealing with color.
Check out -
exhaustive site for all things color:
http://www.colormatters.com/

8. color tools
generator
https://kuler.adobe.com/
Use your Adobe ID to create/save/share color
schemes
schemes
http://colorschemedesigner.com/
Tad bit techy... but a great resource
palettes
http://www.colourlovers.com/
Full palettes from a single color. Patterns too.

9. intuition & technology

10. fin