To give you Photoshop software users to detailed analysis to share the three kinds of UI selection color method.
Method One: Color Wheel color
The color wheel is made up of 12 basic colors.
First of all, it contains three primary colors (Primary colors), namely blue, yellow and red.
The primary colors are mixed to produce a two-time color (secondary colors), mixed with two-time color, resulting in three-time color (tertiary colors).
The color wheel has five concentric rings, from dark to bright-the dark color is in the big ring, the bright color is in the small ring, and the middle is the basic hue of the color.
There are several color categories based on the color relationship
Monochrome collocation is a color-oriented, and then use the depth of the color to carry out the Collocation method, that is, the color wheel, a hue of the dark, medium and bright three tones, single color is relatively monotonous, so the use of color changes in the depth to increase the colorful.
Advantages: Picture unification, collocation is relatively simple and generally do not give people an ugly feeling, generally do not give people ugly feeling.
b, adjacent color matching
Adjacent colors on the hue ring are adjacent to each other
Advantages: Tonal unity, with low contrast degree of harmonious beauty. This color collocation produces a pleasing, low contrast of harmonious beauty. The analogy color is very rich, in the design time applies this kind of collocation also lets you easily produce the good visual effect.
C, complementary color and contrast color matching
Complementary colors are two of the color of 180° on the Hue ring, while the contrasting color is the two color 150° to the 180° range on the hue ring.
Advantages: Complementary and contrasting colors form strong columns of contrast effect, conveying vitality, energy, excitement and other significance. Complementary color to achieve the best results, preferably one of the smaller area, the other is relatively large. Like a small orange dot in a blue area.
D, split complementary color matching
If we use the complementary color and the analogy color method to determine the colour relationship, it is called the split complement.
Advantages: This color collocation is not only the analogy of the low contrast of beauty, but also has a complementary sense of power. A color relationship that is both harmonious and important is formed. As in the above three colors, red is more prominent.
In addition to some children's products, the use of three primary colors is relatively rare. However, both in China and in the United States culture, red and yellow collocation is very popular. Red and yellow with a wide range of applications?? From a fast food restaurant to a gas station, we can see both of these colours together.
Blue-Red collocation is also very common, but only when the two areas are separated, it will appear attractive, if it is adjacent together, it will create a sense of conflict.
F, two times color matching
There is a common color between the two times color?? Two of them share a blue color, both of them have yellow, and both have red, so they can easily form a coordinated match.
Advantages: If three kinds of two times color is used at the same time, it appears very comfortable, attractive, and has a rich hue. They also have the depth and breadth of color, which is difficult to find in other color relationships.
Method Two: Fold the soft color method
This method looks complicated, but it's easy to use.
1, any choice of a white or black, or black and white gradient (can be dots, lines, faces ...) even fonts)
2, then mix mode Select overlay or soft light
3, adjust the transparency (1%-100% casual, worry is to type an integer value directly, for example: Light Texture class page can choose 20%-40%, heavy texture sense class can type 60% or more)
The following figure (using the "soft light" blending mode of the color swatch to adjust the different values to get the various effects)
The same way: Font color in the interface, detail lines, button gradients, corner high light, stroke shadow ... You can use this method to take the advantage of this method is: color to obtain a relatively simple, no need to understand the color index and histogram, do not look at the color wheel ... Only need the designer to have the color esthetic, can the reasonable application.
Method Three: Color Extraction method
This method is from the existing natural color, image color to extract the desired color, to the application and match to win a lot of time.
Find a map that conforms to the style of the interface you want to design (this tutorial uses the chart for Galaxy S4 wallpapers)
Put the picture in PS, click "Store Web All Format" (Windows shortcut key is ctrl+shift+alt+s), format select PNG, color block select 8.
In the color display area will leave 8 colors, click on the color area to the right Drop-down button, will find "Storage color table", store him on the desktop or where you can easily find. Then use PS to open, the color swatch will display the color just extracted.
Successful extraction of 8 colors
The specific color applications are:
1, navigation text and logo color is the most light blue;
2, banner area of the big background, here with the beginning of the picture. The big headline logo uses the deepest blue;
3, the content area appears extracts to three hue color, if just arranges the remaining several colors, the color will be very blunt, therefore uses several pictures to adjust the picture's rhythm excessively. Now it seems to be a good result, content area text color and navigation text consistent, are the most light blue;
4, the content area of several buttons do not use the extracted color, but the white overlay and then adjust the transparency out.
Conclusion: The above three kinds of color matching method is completely different, hope more or less can bring you some harvest. In learning new methods at the same time, but also learn to extrapolate, combined with their own experience and the designer's unique sense of color, forming a set of their own color method.
All right, the above information is the whole content of the detailed three UI choice color method that the user of this software of Photoshop brings to you. You see the users here, now you are very clear, I hope that the small series on the sharing of the tutorials can bring you help.
