Lesson 1

Let’s talk about palettes. To me your color palette is the building block for creating a uniform and beautiful scrap-booking kits. If your colors change right in the middle or you loose your inspiration it can destroy a kit as fast as a computer virus!

Now some people can come up with color palettes in their head and they are beautiful and perfect. I need a little bit more help. A few tricks I use to start my palette.

Color Scheme Designer – Link

So this site is wonderful! First click on the color wheel to your left and pick your base color. Here’s where it’s like throwing darts at a phone book. Just click and go.

Now on the top you have 6 options:

Mono is for monochromatic:

mon·o·chro·mat·ic/ˌmänəkrōˈmatik

2. (of light or other radiation) Of a single wavelength or frequency.

Mono will give you 4 additional colors on the same spectrum like in my webset all purple. You can see a great shadow color and great highlight. But what if your not looking for a monochromatic palate. Well there’s 5 other options hit those wheels.

Complement

com·ple·ment/ˈkämpləmənt/

2. Colors that are opposite each other on the color wheel are considered to be complementary colors (example: red and green).

3. The high contrast of complementary colors creates a vibrant look especially when used at full saturation. This color scheme must be managed well so it is not jarring.

4. Complementary colors are tricky to use in large doses, but work well when you want something to stand out.

Triad

tri·ad/ˈtrīˌad

#####  Color Palette by Color Scheme Designer
#####  Palette URL: http://colorschemedesigner.com/#3w31Tw0w0w0w0
#####  Color Space: RGB; 

*** Primary Color:

   var. 1 = #0A64A4 = rgb(10,100,164)
   var. 2 = #24577B = rgb(36,87,123)
   var. 3 = #03406A = rgb(3,64,106)
   var. 4 = #3E94D1 = rgb(62,148,209)
   var. 5 = #65A5D1 = rgb(101,165,209)

*** Secondary Color A:

   var. 1 = #FFBE00 = rgb(255,190,0)
   var. 2 = #BF9B30 = rgb(191,155,48)
   var. 3 = #A67B00 = rgb(166,123,0)
   var. 4 = #FFCE40 = rgb(255,206,64)
   var. 5 = #FFDB73 = rgb(255,219,115)

*** Secondary Color B:

   var. 1 = #FF4500 = rgb(255,69,0)
   var. 2 = #BF5730 = rgb(191,87,48)
   var. 3 = #A62D00 = rgb(166,45,0)
   var. 4 = #FF7340 = rgb(255,115,64)
   var. 5 = #FF9973 = rgb(255,153,115)

#####  Generated by Color Scheme Designer (c) Petr Stanicek 2002-2010