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- Hi everyone, my name's Dylan.
And today we're gonna take a closer look
at using color in GoDaddy Studio.
In particular, how to create
and save color palettes for your brand,
as well as how the new themes tool
makes the process of selecting color combinations
for your designs really easy and really quick.
All right, let's jump in
with this example template that I've selected
and it's worth noting that any template
you decide to work on in GoDaddy Studio
does come with its own existing color palette.
So if I decide to modify any of these elements,
let's say the text or some of these shapes,
I would just tap on them and then select edit.
That will call up the color palette for me.
And as I mentioned, you'll see all these colors
are from within the same design universe
of this template, which is actually quite useful
because it enables me to perhaps modify things,
shift things around,
but at the same time remain within the guardrails
of something that I know definitely works.
However, if you'd like to start adding your own colors
to the palette, you can definitely do that.
You just navigate to the far right-hand side,
where you'll find the color wheel icon, tap on that,
and you can start creating your own unique color
by just sliding these color sliders around.
And you can create just about any imaginable color this way.
If you do have a particular hex code
for a color that you know of,
maybe it's part of your brand identity,
you can simply tap here and enter that code
to create that color.
But if you're happy with what you've created,
simply tap the check icon at the right hand side,
and that color will now be automatically
added to your palettes.
You can also edit an existing color in your palette.
So let's take this yellow, for example,
I can just tap on that.
It'll call up the option to edit.
And from here, I can maybe
make just a little bit lighter, a little bit brighter,
something like that.
Again, tap check, just to add it to your color palette.
There's a third way you can add a new color to your palette,
and that involves using our incredible color picker tool.
Let's select this text for example
and if you look on the far left-hand side
of the color palette tray, you'll see that little drop icon.
If you tap on that, that now lets me explore the canvas
and I can pick any color from a graphic
or even a photographic image.
Find the exact color that I'm looking for and from there
you would simply tap the plus icon in color palette tray,
and that automatically adds it to your color palette.
So now we've expanded this color palette.
We've customized it somewhat.
And what we can begin to do now
is play around with different color combinations
in the pursuit of customizing this unique design.
And that can be a lot of fun,
but it can also be really time consuming.
And it can even be quite frustrating
because there are just so many options,
particularly when you're working
with 3, 4, 5 colors in a design,
trying to find that that balance, that harmony,
isn't as easy as it sounds.
So that's why our new themes tool comes to the rescue.
And this one's gonna just change your life.
It's gonna save you so much time.
Let's take a look at how it works.
First of all, you'll find it in your main menu tray
at the far right-hand side.
So in the bottom corner, it says theme, just tap on that.
And now what this does is it enables you
to cycle through different color combinations
for your entire design
that are all based on your original template.
So where it says original,
I'm just gonna tap that
and you'll see that every time I tap,
it presents me with completely different combination,
but again, they're all drawn from my original color palette.
So as I said before,
these colors tend to work really well together.
There's a certain sense of harmony.
It remains within the original design universe
that I first stepped into.
It's really just a matter of you deciding subjectively,
which combination you think works best.
So that's obviously gonna save you a ton of time,
and it's a quite a lot of fun to play with.
Now you can, as I've said,
you can remain within your original color palette,
but if you want to mix things up completely
and try a different design style,
then you can scroll through these options at the bottom.
We've got things like corporates, classic, streets, organic.
Let's see, I think playful
probably suits this brand quite well.
So I'll cycle through some options
of a playful color palette.
And as you can see, most of them work really well together.
These aren't just random colors generated by a bot.
They've all been curated by our design team.
So you're working from palettes
that definitely compliment each other.
So that makes it a lot easier to find a combination
that looks really easy on the eye, something like that.
So now, if you're happy with the results,
which I am with this,
you can just tap the check icon
in the top right-hand corner.
And now you'll notice that if you want
to do some more fine tuning to the colors
and you tap edit on any of the elements,
your color palette has now been replaced
with that playful palette that you've selected.
And there are quite a few more different options.
So you can either work with exactly
what theme is generated for you,
or perhaps you want to change one or two of the elements
and that's really easy to do.
Now, regardless of how you discovered
or ended up with your final palette,
whether you just use the default option
or you created your own from scratch,
or you use themes to help you discover new combinations.
It's a really good idea to save your color palette
for future use.
If you want to create new designs down the line
that you want to draw from the same brand identity,
then you really need to save those colors somewhere.
And this is how you do it.
So you're gonna navigate again
to the left-hand side of your color palette.
And you'll notice that there's that
small arrow pointing up, tap that,
and you'll see that I can now save this palette.
I just press save palette.
And let's called this summer special for future reference
and I'll save that, and that's all it takes.
So now I've got that palette saved for future use.
And where that can be really useful
is if you decide now you want to create
some multi page designs using pages in GoDaddy Studio.
Perhaps you would like to create some Instagram Stories
or a campaign over many platforms.
What you can do is begin with your initial design
and very easily start to replicate that
with different color combinations.
So in these samples, what I've done
is I've just replaced the image,
I shuffled the graphics around a little bit
and for every one I just tried
a different color combination with themes,
and it starts to create the impression
of a very well thought out coherent and professional brand.
So those are just some of the ways
that you can play around with color in GoDaddy Studio.
Try it out today for free on iOS, Android, or web.
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