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What is color harmony?

What is color harmony?. Is using 2 or more colors with a fixed relation on the color wheel. It is used to help create a well balanced image. Before breaking into specific color harmonies we need to understand things that can help define and complement color harmonies. .

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What is color harmony?

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  1. What is color harmony? Is using 2 or more colors with a fixed relation on the color wheel. It is used to help create a well balanced image.

  2. Before breaking into specific color harmonies we need to understand things that can help define and complement color harmonies.

  3. Without color we would see the world in ranges of black, white and grays. Image from www.easylivingmom.com

  4. Achromatic Harmony • Is a scheme that uses ranges of black, white and grays. • It uses value to establish differences in shape. Image from Contemporary Color Image from www.digitaltransitions.com

  5. Using Achromatic Harmony with some color helps designers establish focal points. www.theclosetisours.wordpress.com www.designshack.net Bad Lands

  6. Inherent Value • Each hue of color has a corresponding value we refer to this as inherent value. Image from Contemporary Color: Theory and Use

  7. Tints, Tones, and Shades Hue + White = Tint Hue + Gray = Tone Hue + Black = Shade www.wikimedia.org

  8. Color Wheel Primary Colors cannot be broken down any further. Secondary Colors- Created by mixing 2 equal parts of a primary color. Tertiary Colors- Created by mixing primary and secondary hues. http://blog.asmartbear.com

  9. Color Temperature www.tommybeautypro.wordpress.com

  10. http://www.zevendesign.com/1655/blog/creating-depth-art-photographyhttp://www.zevendesign.com/1655/blog/creating-depth-art-photography “Kung Fu Panda”

  11. “The Avengers” Image created by Daniel Dociu

  12. Color Schemes that create Color Harmony

  13. Monochromatic Color Scheme • Monochromatic is a single color that includes the full range of tints, tones, and shades of that color. • Monochromatic is the simplest color harmony. www.muppetmindset.blogspot.com www.hlminteriordesign.com www.alifashionsense.blogspot.com

  14. Analogous Color Scheme • Analogous Color Scheme is a type of color harmony that uses 3 closely placed hues on a color wheel to establish a color scheme. • It has the least contrast of all color schemes. Skylanders

  15. Complementary Color Scheme • Complementary Color Scheme is 2 colors opposite on the color wheel. They offer the most contrast of color. • When two complementary colors of equal value are placed next to each other in a design we call this Complementary Contrast Color Scheme. “Amelie” www.cristinacolli.com

  16. Successive Contrast Color Scheme • Successive Contrast Color Scheme isthe effect of complementary colors to influence each other and the adjacent hues. • If the person then looks at a white or neutral color, the other half of the complement pair will appear or will show up as an afterimage. ~Contemporary Color: Theory and Use, page 74~ ~Contemporary Color: Theory and Use, page 74~ www.uxmatters.com

  17. Split Complement Color Scheme Split Complement Color Scheme is 1 hue plus 2 in line hues to its complement. www.tigercolor.com

  18. Tetrads Color Scheme • Four hues that are of equal distance from each other on the color wheel. Image from Contemporary Color: Theory and Use Image from comicbookmovie.com

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