The result is a nice shift, providing stronger and brighter colors that relate to the original colors.īecause the adjustment layers and layers with blending modes alter the layers underneath, everything can be tweaked in real time. Photoshop with blending modes Sketch with blending modes Affinity Designer with blending modes They’re both using the overlay blend mode, with 40% and 80% opacity, respectively. Here are some yellow blocks to split the base colors into vertical thirds. The technique also works well with blending modes. I’ve used levels adjustment layers as an example, but hue/saturation, vibrance, curves and other adjustment layer types can be just as effective, depending on your needs. Photoshop with adjustment layers Sketch with white and black layers Affinity Designer with adjustment layers Sketch doesn’t have adjustment layers, but using white and black blocks with a layer opacity around 20% will do the trick. I’ve used two levels of adjustment layers here - one to lighten the top third of the blocks and another to darken the bottom third. With the base colors in place, it is now possible to create an adjustment layer with a mask running horizontally across all of the colors (either a vector or bitmap mask will do). Photoshop with base colors Sketch with base colors Affinity Designer with base colors The colors don’t need to be final - rough approximations will do. To get started, choose some base colors by drawing large blocks of solid color next to each other. It is also worth noting that design tools have different capabilities and use different rendering engines, and the results generated can vary slightly. Instructions for Photoshop, Sketch and Affinity Designer are included below, but other tools can be used. In a recent project, I used 14 base colors with 4 variations on each to create a palette of 56 resulting colors. Adjustment layers modify the color of layers below, which means base colors can be edited, and additional variations are created automatically. Photoshop and Affinity Designer’s adjustment layers can also be used for this purpose, and they offer more control.
One of the simplest ways to do this is by stacking partially transparent objects on top of base color swatches, altering portions of the swatch to create the variations. Automatically generating color variations helps to keep colors uniform and easy to manage, while providing a large menu of possibilities.
Quite a few techniques can be used to create large color palettes from a few base colors. Creating Color Palettes Using Adjustment Layers With the right techniques, large color palettes can be created, refined and refactored at will. Good intentions and confident plans can be abandoned when things get a little unwieldy.īut you can equip yourself with some tools to manage the complexity.
Creating large, harmonious and uniform color palettes can be a challenge.
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