Hello iPad Letterers - welcome back to my channel! My name is Karin - I'm from iPad
Lettering and here to help you explore all the wonderful things you can create
with your iPad. In today's video I want to show you how you can create all these
beautiful color palettes starting with one single color - this is such a fun and
easy process and I'll show you a number of different ways of how you can take
your color palette creation to the next level. Make sure you keep watching all
the way to the end so you're not missing any of my cool little tricks. I think we
can all agree that color is hard no matter what it applies to.
I've tried coloring my hair this morning out of desperation because all the
hairdressers are closed, and the color I got wasn't even close to what I wanted!
This this is what it said on the packaging - and this is what I got -
it's rather on the orange side and luckily my husband really likes orange -
so it's not too bad - oh well what can you do?
Luckily we have a little bit more control over the outcome of our color
selections on the iPad, but that doesn't mean that selecting colors is easy. And
also - how can you tell which colors go really nicely together? Think about the
last time you wanted to make a color palette - how did he go about it? And how
did they come out? There is the new color harmony tool available in Procreate,
which is nice, but tbh, I've not found it that useful. It's quite possible that I just don't know
how to use it properly! I‘ve also studied color theory as
part of my graphic design degree, but for some reason I still don't understand how
to apply this knowledge in practice. What I tend to do when I have to come up
with a color palette, is use one of these color generators that you can find on
the internet, or I also use Pinterest for inspiration. The problem I have with
using color generators is that it usually only gives me four or five
colors, and it's also hard sometimes to really customize the color palette that
you get. And we all know what happens when you go on Pinterest - yes the
afternoon is pretty much gone! But now I'm going to show you a much better way
of how you can create an endless amount of color palette starting with only one
color - it’s so cool! Let’s start up Procreate and let's create a new
Canvas. The canvas size you choose doesn't matter too much, I've selected
the default screen size which is absolutely fine. Now the first thing we
want to do is have a look at how you can select colors in Procreate. So we open up the color wheel, which
by the way is also detachable, so you can move this around the screen which is
super handy - and with the X button it sort of goes back here. So we've got the
disc mode, we've got the classic mode, we've got the color harmony which we've
seen before and I didn't find super useful, then we've got the value
sliders, and then we also have our palettes here, and this is what we're
gonna do - create a brand new palette. I usually work in the disc mode, this is my
preferred view of all the colors so let's start with this one. So now for the one
color that you're going to choose to create all these palettes from either choose your
favorite color, or choose a color that you use quite frequently for your designs.
Also make sure that the color is not too dark and it's not too saturated, and when
I say saturate that I mean don't choose a color that sits on the very border
here of your color wheel. You want the color that sits right about here on your
color wheel and then you can change the hues,
and I actually really like purple or pink, so actually I'm gonna choose this
purple color here. So now what we're going to do is create a swatch on the
page and start in the middle somewhere. We're gonna create 4 swatches this way
and then we're also going to create 4 swatches that way, and the way that we
are going to add these color swatches is almost like in an arc motion, so if you
imagine an arc going across the selector color like this - this is the range of
colors that we are going to choose from. And then we are also going to slide
the hue wheel onto both sides. So to start we are going to the left and
we are going to make our colors a little bit lighter, and also a little bit less
saturated. So we’re ever so slightly going to move this a little bit further
up and then we are also going to change the hue like this, and then we are going
to paint this pink color like that. I'm going to go back and we're going to do
the same thing again, so we're going to do this 4 times choosing this light
red, and you can see another reason why we've
chosen this sort of mid tone to start with, so that we have a little bit of
wiggle room to both sides. So I’m going to go a little bit further and lighter, and then
we can almost go into orange and then we're gonna do one more, and this is
almost yellow. Alright and now we're going to select the original color again
and you can do that by holding down your finger to invoke the eyedropper tool, so
now we've got the original color back, and so now we're going to go the
opposite way, so we're gonna drag that wheel ever so slightly down and ever so
slightly to the right, and then we're going to move our color wheel to the
other side, and I'm not going to drag it too much because I kind of like these
purpley colors so I want some more of those. So I'm going to do this 4 times as well
and then here I recommend that you don't pull it down too much because then the
colors will get too dark too quickly. So usually I prefer dragging it further to
the right rather than down, but of course this is totally up to you - if you
prefer having more darker colors then definitely go for that. And so you can
see now the last color is probably going to be quite dark and it's quite similar
to the previous color, but that's okay that's only a lot first attempt, and as
you can see this is already a pretty nice color palette! Now let me show you
how we can make this even better :) So the first thing we’re going to do is sort
of trim the edge just a little bit, and the easiest way I found to do that is
use the rectangle selection tool, so we can drag the selection rectangle around
our colors and then what we're going to do is copy and paste this onto a new
layer, so now we have all the colors like this on a new layer, and then we can
maybe tidy up the side lengths as well, and an easy way to do that it's just to
slide it to the side, and so that's gonna cut off the edge and give you a nice
straight edge, and then maybe move it to the other side as well. Maybe we can
make it a bit bigger like this. Okay so now I'm going to name this layer, this is
going to be our middle layer, and then we go and copy it twice and then this one
is going to be the top layer and this one's going to be our bottom layer, so
now we need to move them, so we're going to select the bottom layer - turn on
magnetics and turn on uniform and then you can slide it down like this, and you
can see you know that the edges don't match properly, so there's a
easy trick - we can flip it vertically and then boom they match. So now we can just
overlap them a little bit because we really want them to be continuous like
this. Alright so now we're going to do the same with the top, we're going to
flip it around and then we're going to move it up until we get to the edge like
that. And now is where the magic starts! We’re going to select the hue saturation and
brightness sliders, and for the top layer we're going to increase the brightness
just a little bit - it doesn't need to be too much maybe up to 56%, and then we are
going to bring down the saturation, remember the lighter the colors the less
saturation, we want not too much maybe 42% is nice, and then we are also
ever-so-slightly going to change the hue and we're going to move it to the left,
maybe 46% looks good. All right so that's one layer done. Now let's go to the
bottom layer and let's do the same thing - except we're not going to do the same
thing, we’re actually going to do the opposite! So what we're going to do here is we are
going to decrease the brightness to make it ever so slightly darker, and I think 45%
is probably good, and then we are going to increase the saturation here - again
not too much, 55 - 56 percent is probably quite nice. Actually I still think it's
just a little bit too light so let's just bring it down a bit more and then
we're also going to shift the hue ever so slightly and this time we're going to
move it to the right, so we're going to bring it up to maybe 54%. And then look
at that isn't that cool? We've got a full color palette consisting of 27 colors
just like that - that's how easy it was :) So now let's add it to our color
palette - you can tap the plus sign - let's bring this to the top and then let's
select the disc, and now we can populate these colors. All you have to do is
hold down your finger to invoke the eyedropper tool and then place the color
on the palette like this. So now we're going to do that for all the colors.
If you find that it takes too long to invoke the eyedropper tool - what you can
do, you can go to the settings here and then go to gesture controls and then
go to Eye Dropper, and drop this down to 0.20 seconds and then it goes
a lot faster. If you find later that you're invoking that color selector by mistake
then you can always go back here and you can
increase this delay to a little bit more, maybe a second or something and
then you can prevent the eyedropper tool from popping up when you don't want it.
But for this exercise is really handy to have it set to this value. Alright so
now let's go back to our colors and let's add them all here, and you can see
I actually have deliberately not selected 10 colors, but only 9, and the
reason for that is I like to have three spare slots here, and usually what they
do is I just put black and white, and then sometimes I have a favorite color
and then I might add that there as well. So this looks pretty cool - so now we can
add white - you can double tap anywhere in this region to select white,
and then add it to the palette, and then for black tap down here - just double
tap anywhere around here and then that will give you a black selection - and
there we go our first palate finished! Alright so now let's see what else we
can do with this palette. So the first thing we're going to do is group these
layers, and then we're going to duplicate the layer and we're going to flatten
this group, and the reason why we're doing that is so that we have a copy of
our original colors, and now we can modify this, so now we can maybe make
this a little bit smaller and put it here just for reference. And then we're gonna
take another copy and we can put this here, so now what we can do to easily
modify this color palette is bring back our hue saturation brightness sliders
and now we can go in and then you can see what happens if you just make it
ever so slightly lighter, maybe decrease the saturation a bit and then maybe also
change the hue, and you can see now how easy it is to create a completely
different palette from the original palette that we had - isn't that cool? So
you can choose anything you want. I actually really like this type of color
palette - I've made quite a few that are kind of similar to this, and there we go
that's how easy it was :) Now of course, for some designs you might not actually need
this many colors, so now what we can do as well is create a new layer and now let's
pick some random colors from one of these palettes, and create a new palette
from that. I really like this purple so let’s start with this, and then let's add some
other colors to see what this looks like. And then maybe that blue as well and now
you can see how easy it is to create all these different palettes! So
this looks very very nice :) Let's start with this, I don't normally like this
color so much, but let's see what we can create just using our pre-made palette.
This is pretty good and then maybe this light one here again, it's not bad!
Right so now let's do one with this palette here, we're gonna choose purple
and blue and I like this sort of green as well, and then the dark one maybe looks
pretty good. And then one more just for good measure - and
there we go! Another 4 palettes - just like that! So this is pretty neat
but there is even more that we can do with this, so let's go back to our
original palette, and let's duplicate this once more, then let's maybe move it down
here - we've got a little bit of space. So now what we can do as well is instead of
using the hue saturation and brightness sliders we can also use the color
balance, this is actually a really really nice tool as well so now we can change
the shadows, the mid-tones and the highlights, so let's start with the
highlights and let's see what happens if we add a little bit of yellow, so you can
see how the whole color palette instantly warms up, just by adding more yellow
to the lighter tones, and then here we can maybe add a bit of green or magenta
to make it all pink - it's pretty good and then the cyan as well, and you can see
now at the start these colors were quite similar, but just by changing the
mid-tones and then later on you'll see if we changed the shadows too, this is
going to change it even more. So this is how we can manipulate the initial colors
that we've selected, but the whole palette still looks really nice, and all
the colors are still matching - isn't this amazing? And then - just because we can - I
want to show you another way of how you can change these color palettes. So now
what we're going to do is add a new layer at the top of the stack here, and
we're going to change the blend mode to overlay, and then we are going to fill
this layer with a nice bright color. You can choose one of the colors you've
already got in your palette, but I recommend that you choose another one,
maybe choose a bright blue color and then fill the layer with this color and
now you can see how we've added this bright tone to all the colors. So now if
we wanted to change this, what we can do now is go back to hue saturation brightness,
and maybe we don't like blue so much, so let's see what happens if we make it
purple, or maybe more red, and now again, we have a completely different selection of
colors just by doing that. And then of course you can also play with the
saturation again and the brightness, maybe brighten up your palette if you're
looking for more brighter colors. And then - instead of spending your whole
afternoon looking on Pinterest for nice color palettes, you can spend the whole
afternoon making your own color palettes, and making them exactly the way you want -
it's a so cool! I really hope this video inspires you to create your own
color palettes! The color palettes I've created here in this video are going to
be available as a free download from my website- so so make sure you check that out!
I'm going to put the link in the description box of this video. And then
if you're curious to learn how we can use these color palettes to fill in your
lettering pieces or your art pieces - I'm going to bloop up another video here so
you can see exactly how you can do that. If you like this video please give it a
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