Working With Colors and Establishing a Color Palette in Photoshop
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Working With Colors and Establishing a Color Palette in Photoshop

on Aug 24th 2011 with 23 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Program: Adobe Photoshop CS5
  • Difficulty: Beginner
  • Estimated Completion Time: 18 Minutes

Final Product What You'll Be Creating

This entry is part 6 of 25 in the Digital Art for Beginners Session
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Photoshop is an excellent tool for manipulating photographs but it can also be used as a means to create stunning digital art. This tutorial is part of a 25-part video tutorial series demonstrating everything you will need to know to start producing digital art in Photoshop. Digital Art for Beginners, by Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor, Martin Perhiniak will begin by teaching you how to draw in Photoshop. At the conclusion of this series you will know all you need to produce your own concept art and matte paintings in Photoshop.

Today’s tutorial Part 6: Working With Colors and Establishing a Color Palette in Photoshop will explain a bit of traditional and digital color theory and then put it into practice by establishing a color palette in Photoshop. Let’s get started!

 
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Martin is a Hungarian graphic designer, digital artist and an Adobe Certified Expert and Instructor (Design Master). He is currently teaching and working in London but usually travels around the UK and share his love for Adobe products and graphic design. You can follow him on his blog or on Twitter.  

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  • Kris

    Thank you Martin! Wonderful!

  • Adam

    Excelent tutorial, i’ve actually learnt from your tutorials more than i anticipated.

  • Dave

    Instead of random colour picking I was taught a method to copy the picture you want to colour sample to a new layer, apply a Mosaic filter on it (Filter/Pixelate/Mosaic…) with a cell size around 100-200 squares and then pick the colours from those huge squares.

    Hope this helps,

    Cheers,
    (and for Martin: Üdv innen Magyar földről! :)

    • http://www.yesimadesigner.com Martin Perhiniak
      Author

      Hi Dave,

      Interesting technique, I like it! Thanks for sharing!

      Köszi szépen :)

      • leo

        hey martin,,,,great tutorials i really like them,,,what do you think about wacom inklik…is it worth baying it…

    • http://www.parasuniversal.com Paras Universal

      Great idea!

  • Trevor

    Well done Martin great job again

  • Pravat

    I really love ur tutorials. thanks!

  • http://www.psd-dude.com PSDDude

    Interesting, I am just starting to learn digital painting so this video tut is very useful for me :) Thanks Martin!

  • Elizabeth

    A bit off topid, but does anyone else see two reds in the color wheel at the beginning, or am I partially colorblind?

    • Chris

      Yes, there are two reds color. I’m really partially colorblinder (I’m sorry my English) but I see this case you said.

    • Rich

      Yep, i have the same problem.. i see oranges as reds and vice versa. It’s a kind of colour blindness.

  • Lyn

    So interesting! The more I learn the more I learn I know so little!! Very clearly explained, just wish the video came in a larger size. thanks

    • http://www.yesimadesigner.com Martin Perhiniak
      Author

      Hi Lyn,

      I’m glad you like my tutorials and I hope I will be able to teach you more interesting things in the upcoming episodes. You can watch the videos in full screen and high definition if you click on the little TV icon under the video on the right (just next to the blip.tv logo).

      Cheers,
      Martin

  • http://www.parasuniversal.com Paras Universal

    Thank you so much Martin. One of my fav tuts yet. Learnt so much especially about blocking. Well explained and you make it look so un-intimidating.

  • carlos

    You have a dead link for Part 7. Just FYI

  • Sergio

    Thank you for the explanation, thanks for taking your time for this. I’ve learned a lot here.

  • Michael B

    Wonderful tutorials. Thanks for sharing. I have a quick question regarding your photos. You said they were your photos and I would like to know of the beautiful places you took them. They look like fantastic locations. Thanks.

  • Jocely

    Thanks! this is great! I wanted to know how to switch my photoshop so that when I hit ctrl+atl+cmd it shows up the color wheel. Mine currently shows the a square with the hue bar

  • Fabio

    Really good! Thanks for the tutorial.

  • uzma islam

    very very nice work

  • http://kevinbrunt.com Kevin B

    Great tutorial, thanks. I’m a big fan of the series.

  • http://www.coolorus.com Karol

    Check out great plug-in for Digital Painters called Coolorus – coolorus.com