Photoshop Professional Color plugin kuler how to use

so what rules or principles do you need to follow in color matching?

Basic Principles for Web page color matching:

　　(1) The rationality of color collocation.

Each color has its own meaning, such as: red: Passion, unrestrained, joyful, solemn and so on, which can convey to the viewer accurately and quickly the theme that the designer wants to express.

　　(2) Color of the xianmingxing.

The "Visual focus area" of the page is generally the area of the first screen, and the use of vivid colors in this area can impress the viewer and bring a second visit.

　　(3) The uniqueness of color.

How to stand out from many of the same types of pages, which requires a unique color scheme.

　　How to find a method based on the above principle?

　　(1) Comparison of color matching

In general, the color of the three primary colors (red, yellow, blue) can best reflect the difference between colors. The strong contrast of color has the visual attraction ability, may highlight the key point, produces the intense visual effect.

　　(2) The collocation of cold color

Cold color collocation refers to the use of green, blue and purple color matching, can create a quiet, cool and elegant atmosphere.

　　(3) The collocation of warm color

Warm color System collocation refers to the use of red, orange, yellow and other colors, for the Web page to create a stable, harmonious and warm atmosphere.

　　(4) Adjacent color matching

Adjacent color refers to the color on the color ring, such as green and blue, red and yellow, you can easily achieve the harmony and unity of the page effect.

　　(5) The same color matching

The same color collocation refers to the first selection of a color, and then adjust its transparency and saturation, the color will fade or deepen, and create new colors, such a page looks uniform, with a sense of hierarchy.

Here to introduce this is called Kuler PS Gadget, it hides in the expansion panel inside. This gadget requires you to install the full version of PS to use.

Open the panel will find that there are many color schemes, the upper left can choose to list the arrangement of the scheme. If there is a "chef" who likes so little to say, start immediately. If all is not satisfactory, "Chef" can only have their own hands and clothing.

Click to create, you can go to edit mode, the delay is to determine the primary color (base), and then through a variety of color schemes to generate a color board.

Quite simply, now that we've chosen the color scheme, how do we use it? If you want to use a color swatch as the foreground color, you can double-click the color block, and the foreground color is synchronized to the current color block. If you want to add a color scheme to the Swatch, you can point to the Swatch button below Figure 2. You can also save the theme, click on the Save button below Figure 2, you can.

　　Tips: The name of the theme should be in English, do not support Chinese oh.

Click Browse > Choose to save, you can see just stored color scheme, in addition, "Chef" can also be satisfied with their own color scheme uploaded online.

If your PS version is not fully installed, you can use the Kuler online version:

Here are a few basic color schemes for your reference:

　　The flat color of the trend

　　Color with emotional bias

　　Chinese Traditional colors

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