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    Colour Theory

    Do you recomend any "theory of colour" online tutorials?
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    Simply google the word "color theory" and you'll be surprised.



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    Right, I got soo many tutorials, some contradictory and eveyone had a different colour wheel!
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    ^ can't really do much about that one, everyone who publishes something tries to be "original". Sadly some take that originality too far, that's why we end up having contradictory articles and examples and everything.



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    Quote Originally Posted by netadict
    eveyone had a different colour wheel!
    That's not totally surprising, as the original color wheels were based on red yellow and blue. This because there was a need for a standard of colors on with which you could create all other colors from.

    This part still is true. However, the artworld set them up as a triangle. This isn't true. As physicist found that instead of red it was a slightly more pink shade of red that held the position red was holding. I don't know for sure, but that's probably the reason CMY mixing was introduced next to the tradition RGB mixing.

    That's probably why the sites you found contradict each other. I know wikipedia has a good article on it, which shows both theories.

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    You know... to sound like a TOTAL stick in the mud and as one who did fine art before multimedia: the BEST way to gain an understanding of colour and how it works is to apply it.
    Go through those colour wheels you got from wiki and other sites, actually sit down and mix a few of the colours, you can also give yourself little tasks where you decide on a limited pallet and work selectively in tones and shades of 3 or so colours... It will help you so much more than simply parrot learning theory.

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    actually sit down and mix a few of the colours
    I'm with Nats on this, jump in and play around, heres another good site that might inspire, even better now most people have a camera with them most of the time (phone)

    http://www.boxesandarrows.com/view/n...terface_design

    using a colour wheel and taking colour themes from images will take a bit of practice, but its good fun trying stuff out

    hope the link is of use

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