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Using The Color Wheel

Using The Color Wheel

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Using The Color Wheel

Color plays a major part in digital scrapping. Learning a little bit more about it may
make things easier for you as you put the various pieces together to create your
layouts.

Using the artist’s color wheel model, which was originally created by Sir Isaac
Newton, is a circular representation of the colors that are in the visible spectrum of
light. The primary colors are colors that are the basis of all other colors and cannot
be created by any other color.

To further explore color, we also want to look at the secondary and tertiary colors as
well as complementary and analogous colors.

Secondary colors are made by mixing two of the primary colors together. Mix red
and yellow to get orange, yellow and blue to get green, or red and blue to get purple
and you have the secondary colors. The exact secondary color you get depends on
the proportions in which you mix the two primaries.

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Intermediary colors are those colors that are created by mixing a primary and a
secondary color in various proportions to create all of the variations in between the 2
colors.

Tertiary colors are those which are made by combining all 3 primary colors or a
primary color and a secondary color. The tertiary colors are your grays, browns or
the “muddy” types of colors. Think of that old watercolor box and what you came up
with if you mixed blue and orange together.

When we deal with colors, we also need to look at the complementary colors. These
are the colors that are directly across from each other on a “color wheel” which is
simply a circular representation of the colors that we can see.

The complementary color of red is green, which is the color that comes from mixing
the other 2 primary colors. The complementary color of yellow is purple (red + blue).
The complementary color of blue is orange (red + yellow). Complementary colors
play a huge part in our layouts. The use of a complementary color can bring life to
an otherwise dull layout by brightening it. When complementary colors are placed
next to each other, they actually brighten the colors to the eye

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We also have analogous colors that can be used in our layouts. These are
Simply the colors that lie next to each other on the color wheel, such as the
intermediary colors between blue and green. Analogous colors usually present a
unified or subtle palette for your layout. If you find you need a little extra pizzazz,
try using a bit of the complementary color to bring a bit more light to the layout.

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So, why all of this focus on colors? Color can make or break your layout. If your
layout seems to be missing something, it just might be that a simple touch of a
complementary color might be the spark that is needed to give it that ‘finished’ look.
Digital scrapbooking designers usually have created a palette of colors for you in
their sets that follow these color principles. Armed with a little knowledge about the
color wheel and how colors work, you should be able to choose photos and sets that
work well together with ease! Does your son have an orange shirt on in the photos
you are scrapping and you don’t know what colors to use to set it off and make the
photo pop? Give one of the blue sets, the complementary color, a try and see what
kind of results you get! These color principles are followed in interior decorating as
well as your digital scrapping layouts so with a little more information, you can even
become a more colorful person!

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