- [Voiceover] In this movie I'll walk you through
every single one of the 23 harmony rules
that's available from the Color Guide panel.
And just to make things a little bit easier to process,
I'll divide them into 10 groups.
Because notice if I click on this down pointing arrow head
in the top right corner of the Color Guide panel.
We'll see this pop-up menu labelled Harmony Rules
that begins with Complementary and ends with Pentagram.
Now, Pentagram happens to be the only one
with a single variation.
Which is why it amounts to a unique group.
Whereas High Contrast as you can see here,
has four variations, making it one group as well.
And so, let's see how that works.
Now just to make things clearer,
I'm identifying the color of this compass rose
here inside Photoshop.
And so, I'll go ahead and advance to the next layer comp.
And you can see that the blue of the compass rose
exist down here in the bottom left region
of the LAB color wheel.
Which makes it our base color.
And the base color by the way is identified by a big circle
on a kind of radial hinge right here
that goes to the center of the color wheel.
All right, now we're gonna move through every one of these
color harmonies that are listed,
in the order they appear in the pop-up menu.
But we're gonna cover them in a more logical order.
Starting with the Tetrads.
Which include Tetrad implication being one.
As well as 2 and 3.
What we're seeing right here is Tetrad 2,
as I've listed in the top right corner of the slide.
Now, by Tetrad it means four.
So we're going off from the center
in four different directions.
They're not quite exactly 90 degrees
but they are roughly perpendicular
as you can see right here.
And then, because we're looking at Tetrad 2,
we get an extra darker version of the base color as well.
And so, imagine if I was to drag this base color
around the circle
that all these other colors would move as well
because they are hinged together
according to this specific harmony rule.
Now, just as Tetrad represents, not necessarily four colors,
but four different directions.
Triad represents three different directions.
So in the case of Triad 2 right here,
we have a total of five colors
because we have the base color, a darker version,
and then a darker version of one of the colors
in a different direction as well.
Next we have Complementary.
Which includes two varieties.
Both of which feature darker and brighter versions
of the base color.
As well as at least two color going off
in the opposite direction.
What we're seeing right now is Complementary 2,
which includes this additional sixth color right here.
And again, if you were to drag this base color around
all the other colors would move as well.
And they're not only gonna move around the circle,
but they're gonna move in and out as well.
So if you drag the base color out,
you're gonna get more saturated colors.
Because as the hinge for the base color extends,
so do the hinges for the complementary colors.
If you move it in to create a less saturated base color,
you'll end up with less saturated complementary colors.
And the same goes for brighter and darker
base colors as well.
All right, next we've got the Complements.
And they include Left Complement, Right Complement
and Split Complementary.
Currently, we're seeing Left Complement.
Now obviously, these colors are hinging down
and to the right.
So they're not moving to the left,
they're really moving in a clockwise direction.
So Left Complement means that the complementary colors
are moving clockwise.
Right Complement means that the complementary colors
are moving counter clockwise.
Split Complement is gonna give you two colors off,
in both a clockwise and counter clockwise direction.
All right, next we've got Analogous.
In which all the colors are moving
in roughly the same direction as we see here.
And the difference between Analogous,
which we're seeing currently,
and Analogous 2 is the degree to which these colors
verge from the base color.
Next, we've got Monochromatic.
Which includes Monochromatic 2 and Shades.
And in both the cases of the Monochromatics,
the colors are moving in the same direction
and we're seeing different saturation levels.
In the case of Shades,
we would see different levels of luminance.
The Compounds, 1 and 2,
are a combination of Analogous and Complementary,
hence Compound, more than one thing working together.
And so, as you can see we've got a base color
as well as a couple of analogous variations
and then we've got a complementary color
as well as some analogous variations of that.
All right, now our second to last group is High Contrast.
Which is what it sounds like.
We get a bunch of high contrast variations.
That is, big variations in saturation as well as luminance.
And the directions that these colors go
varies from one version of High Contrast to the next.
And then finally, we have Pentagram.
In which the colors go off in five different directions.
And again, if I was to drag the base color out,
I would increase the saturation of all the colors.
If I moved it in, I would decrease the saturation.
If I dragged it around,
then I would get totally different hues.
And if I darkened or brightened the base color,
I would darken and brighten the variations as well.
And that's how you work with every single one
of the 23 harmony rules.
Which divide into 10 basic groups inside Illustrator.