Color tints

- So I've just been playing with some of the colors just to get a little more what I feel looks correct. Little bit boring if you watched me doing it, so I just cut it out. But what happens if you want to add some more colors in here that aren't just different colors? So rather than like a yellow, what happens if you want to add a light or a dark blue in here? So the way that I like to do this is with tints, so to do this, I'm gonna use a blue, I'm gonna copy this and paste it below, so I'm gonna have this rectangle that's below here.

So if I want to make a lighter version of this blue, kind of the common technique would be to just do it by eye. So in here, they'll just go here and be like, "Okay, that's a lighter blue along here," kind of making it a little bit more see through is suppose. The other way if I just undo is just make it lighter, literally, by just doing something like 80% and making that a lighter blue. Also, by 50%, and that kind of adds a lighter blue. But this is kind of a fake way to do it, and it doesn't really feel like it goes together.

There is a better way to do this, I promise. So, gonna go back to 100% here, exactly the same color at the moment. What I'm gonna do is actually click on the fill and I'm gonna change gen hex to HSL, this is the hue, saturation, and lightness. So in here, because I've got the saturation and lightness, which is a bit of a clue, I can actually change this color up here, so what I'd like to do is just go along here, which is kind of similar to what we've done before, so I've gone a little bit lighter, so I'm just looking and changing that.

And maybe a little bit in, that would go grayer. So I'm just gonna keep it in this line for now. And what I generally like to do is kind of pick a color, maybe something that looks like that, and then just slightly, if I'm making this lighter, I'm gonna increase the hue very, very slightly over to the right. If I'm going lighter, I'm gonna go to the right. If I'm going darker, I'll go to the left. This just makes it a little bit warmer, so I'm actually gonna type this in by just pressing the up twice, so this just makes it a little bit warmer.

So again, if I'm making a dark color, I'm gonna copy this and paste it up above. So I like to do dark, mid, and light, and again, this is just gonna go the other way down this page, getting a little bit darker, and then the hue is gonna go down just a tiny bit, maybe one or two just to make it a little bit cooler. So this is one thing that I like to do. This is just personal preference, it's just a quick way of doing this. Again, a lot of this stuff is by eye, and it's practice.

So you have to do things again and again. So just to do it with, say, the green one, I'm gonna do the same thing. Copy this, go down here, again, gonna go straight up, so maybe up here. Maybe because it's a little bit bright, I kind of wanna reduce the saturation by going across as well, and then just kind of warm it up because I'm going lighter, I'm gonna change the hue down a little bit.

Over way, increase it, and the same thing up. So I'm gonna go up here. And again, this is just a quick way of doing this. Again, it is a little bit more by eye. We're gonna go down this way, maybe tiny but across as well, and then with the hue, I'm gonna go down, so maybe one down, and this just gives me a quick way to make a color scheme, and again, this is just a quick tip, there is more complex ways of doing this. Now one thing, if you are making color schemes, and you think that you suck at it, there are ways to do this that other people have done and given you for free.

Now the one way to do this is go to colourlovers.com. Colour with a U 'cause it was, I think a Canadian site originally, where you can go to browse, and then there's a pallettes in here, and in here it will give you a lot of people's pallettes that you an actually use. Now you can actually go to things like most loved or most favorited or most comments, see more popular ones, and we can just take some of these colors and use it in our projects.

So if you are feeling like you do suck at a lot of this stuff, some of it is using inspiration of a place and working with it and do a lot of practice. Your first go may not be right, but there are ways to do this. This is just the quick technique to kind of get these colors in place.