How To Make Hundreds Of Color Palettes From Just One Color

How do you create color palettes in Photoshop? What methods do you use to combine colors, and how do you know if those colors go well with each other?

Greg Gunn from The Futur Academy has come up with an excellent tutorial that shows you an easy process for creating color palettes that work. He takes you through an interesting “arc” technique with which you can create multiple palettes starting from just one color. Watch below.

00:46 – Intro
01:28 – Picking your first color
02:07 – Visualizing the arc
02:57 – Picking lighter colors
03:51 – Picking darker colors
04:31 – Adding more layers of value
06:12 – Creating palettes from your colors

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