Color Theory: Balancing Similar Colors

Video Transcript

"Just as you can get a lot of bang for your buck if you can manage to match colors to its similar value, you also can work with juxtaposing colors of similar saturation, and contrasting colors of similar saturation. So what happens in this color study, is that right around the center here, we want our focus. We've got the most saturation, I mean that's definitely the brightest color that's used. But the blue and the green up here are also quite bright. They're darker but they are similarly bright. Down as we move down this, we stay in the blue-green range, but we're getting a lot more neutral. As we move down our color is a lot less neutral there than it is up here. And what that does is sort of make it fade away a little bit. So again you know, the more you can control your changes. Not just the value, but of saturation, the more you can really control what goes in, what goes out. You know, how much contrast there is. Obviously you know, there's a lot strong contrast here of value. That's dark, that's light. Up here let's see. Up here it's more, here it's more a terms of saturation. That's a brighter color than this is. Also this is warm and this is cool. So essentially, this sits in front of this corner. And that's how the color theory kind of comes together. Warm sticks out, cool recedes. Stronger value contrasts jump, lesser value contrasts recede. And in general warm colors come out, cool colors recede and brightness also. The bright colors take your eye more than the dull colors."