Color is the first thing that you
recognize when you look at something and
it can create an emotional response to
how it makes you feel in games color can
also be used to guide the player to pick
up certain objects or feel a certain way
in a game level let's begin with a short
history then jump into Photoshop to see
how we can use the knowledge to create
variations of our color thumbnails for our background
Sir Isaac Newton discovered in 1666 that
when white light passes through a glass
prism different rays of light are bent
and they appear different colors
Newton proposed placing colors around a
circle and the result was a hue circle
known as a color wheel
based on this artists considered the primary colors
red yellow and blue the theory being that
with the addition of black and white you
can mix any other color
when a light ray is emitted from a source it bounces onto a surface then enters our eyes when this
happens your brain will interpret the
color of the object we can break down
color using three different components
hue which is a type of color
saturation the intensity of the color and value the lightness or darkness of the color
considered in greyscale our eyes have
three cones lms all cones are more
sensitive to one or two more specific
wavelengths L cones yellow M cones green
and S cones blue and violet
Photoshop uses the colors red green and blue and
mixes them at different values to create
what you see on your monitor if we mix
these colors at their purest values in
Photoshop so RGB set to 255 where
they overlap it will create white where
red green and blue overlap they will
create the secondary colors of cyan
magenta and yellow these colors with the
addition of black are used in the
printing process for example to create
color magazines and posters
which color wheel should I use for digital? there has
been some very good research in the area
by the artist James Gurney who recommends
the color wheel adapted by photographer
Tobey Sanford
this gives us the best of both worlds
traditional and the digital it also
matches the colour wheel inside of
Photoshop so now we have six basic
primary colors red blue and green which
are the properties of light and cyan
magenta and yellow which are the
properties of pigments this compares to
the traditional color wheel of red
yellow and blue
in the next video we'll look at how we
can use this color information to create
palettes for a background and character
