let's begin by choosing a colour it can
be any colour that you want I'm gonna
start with red and if you want that
vibrant feel, somewhere in this area
should be a great choice you can even
start with a pastel color or a
desaturated colour
this step is entirely up to you holding
down shift on a new layer and then using
the brush tool I'm gonna make a straight
line now you don't have to make it
straight but in the end it just makes it
neater and makes my video more
aesthetically pleasing so now to choose
the other colour so imagine an arc going
from the top-left corner of the square
all the way into the bottom corner
passing through the colour that you've
chosen for me is this brick colour so you
want to choose colours afterwards in the
art I need 3 or 4 colours on the left and
3 or 4 colours on the right you don't
have to do as many colors as I am I just
want to create a variety of different
clothes that I can then swatch so let's
go back to the colour picker and then we
can choose the other colour so I'm gonna
go up a little bit and then go left and
then to add a bit more interest into the
colour I'm going to drag this bar to the
top a little bit so it makes it a bit
more orange draw that line and then I'm
gonna go again and choose a different
colour go up and then left a little bit
slide the bar up and now we have this
yellowish colour I really like this color
it looks almost like gold
again go up and then left and then drag
the bar to the top and we have kind of
this brighter yellow up and then left
drag the bar up and we go into the green
or lime territory so far this pallet is
giving me life it's giving me summer
vibes I could imagine a melon ice cream
on a hot summer day now let's choose
some darker colours so this time I'm
gonna go to the bottom a little bit and
then to the right since on the left side
we drag the bar to the top now I'm gonna
drag it to the bottom but since I'm on
the red side so that means I'll have to
go back all the way to the top so now we
have this kind of maroon colour and how
far you move these from the left or
the right is entirely up to you it's how
you want to create your colour palette
but I want to make it vibrant and a lot
more variety so that's why if you see me
sliding things a lot to the left or a
lot to the right is just to create a bit
more variety in the colour palette
and there you go we have the first colour
palette it is so nice like I feel like
the transition between the colours is
just perfect but now let's take it up a
notch let's say you like those colours
but you want also different variations
of the same colour so lighter and darker
so now I'm just going to select the top
and please give me a like for at least
trying to make these thirds very
accurately open hues saturation
and then make these colours a lot lighter
and then lower its saturation because
the lighter the colour gets the less
saturated it becomes and it goes into
more the pastel territory and then in
the hue I'm gonna slide that to the left you
also add a little bit of interest and
then I'm gonna do the same thing to the
bottom but I'm going to make them darker
and then slide in the lightness to the
left to make the colors darker that's
why in the step before I said not to
pick a color that's really dark
otherwise this color is gonna be pure
black the darker the color gets the more
saturated it becomes so I'm gonna also
move the saturation to the right now if
you move the hue to the left on the
lighter colors I'm gonna move it to the
right on the darker colors
pick four five six whatever your heart
fancies and then you can create your own
colour palettes and there's no right or
wrong here you can just pick whatever
colours that you want based on your taste
and just the story that you want to say
so you can pick complementary colours you
can pick you can go for a monochromatic
look or maybe doing a gradient between
yellows and oranges it's completely up
to you but for me I just love that lime
colour so here's one colour palette and
then I'm gonna pick more colours and
create different palettes
 
 
so I've only created three but as you
can see you can create so many palettes
using this technique and this palette
with greens and purples I don't know I
just feel like the colors go really well
together because I never thought of
pairing purple and green but I really
like this color palette so what you can
do is then expand it and then do the
same techniques to get more variety in
the four colors that you've chosen now
the last thing I want to show you is for
example if you wanted all of your colors
to have more of a blue undertone then
what you could do is add a blue layer on
top of it and then go into blending mode
and set it to overlay as you can see
that changes the color drastically and
it's just with the click of a button and
then also you could just change that all
the way to pinks yellows greens reds and
you can then create more and more colors
so now let's test these colour palettes
into a diagram so this is the diagram
that I've been using it's a land-use
diagram for a project that I've been
working on so this is the colour palette
that I went for when I created this
diagram is more about muted colors and
I'm pretty boring with my diagrams to be
honest after watching this video I
should be a lot more adventurous so for
example grass is green and blue is water
but it's always nice to be a bit more
abstract and choose colors that aren't
necessarily accurate so now let's try
those color palettes that we created so
the trick is here if you have so many
colors it can be a bit overwhelming to
choose which color goes where so it's
really just a trial and error and then
at the end you see if it works well if
it's all about choosing good colors but
also making it aesthetically pleasing
for the eyes
so for example here the grass is
supposed to be green but I feel like if
you add green it adds this kind of
freshness and just vibrant feel but I
went with red because it's a bit more
abstract and it just goes with the
overall theme and then my slide I made
it a lime so that it is the kind of like
the fresh aspect into the diagram so
let's try another color palette and see
how that turns out
so this is how this diagram with this
color palette ended up and as you can
see in the beginning of the video you
can create so many color palettes the
possibilities are literally endless I
hope you guys enjoyed this video let me
know if you found it helpful and let me
know in the comments down below what is
your favorite color or what is your
favorite technique of creating color
palettes for your diagrams I usually
stick to neutrals I'm pretty boring but
I think I'm going to start being a bit
more adventurous I am Rasha Shrourou
and I'll see you next time
