Colour Essentials: Create Colour Palettes With Confidence

Designers - master a greater skill for working with colour!

What you'll learn

Master Colour Communication: Learn to confidently articulate and convey colour nuances and concepts effectively

Enhance Colour Recognition: Sharpen your ability to distinguish and select colours proficiently

Perfect Colour Coordination: Create harmonious and appealing colour schemes effortlessly

Increase Design Confidence: Gain assurance in your colour design through understanding and practical application

Requirements

No previous knowledge of colour theory or experience of working with colour needed. This course will provide you with a great foundation for working with colour!

NB. Both the Colour Essentials and Colour Psychology Principles courses form a two-part programme designed to give you a firm foundation for understanding how to work with colour in design and influence behaviour through the principles of Applied Colour Psychology.

Description

Learn effective and essential methods to help you to develop a greater skill for working with colour. You’ll be able to design more effectively and speed up the process from brief to design implementation.Master the Essentials of Working with Colour.If you’re a designer or student wanting to improve your knowledge and gain a thorough understanding of how to work with colour – this course is tailor-made for you!It provides a straightforward set of techniques that once mastered, will help you to develop a greater skill for designing with colour. You’ll be able to design more effectively streamlining the journey from initial brief to final implementation.Colour Essentials breaks free from traditional colour theory based on the colour wheel. Instead, you’ll be learning a simplified approach to understanding colour, focusing on the subtle variations within each hue. These nuances can not only transform the visual appeal of your designs but also influence how we emotionally perceive those colours, triggering either positive or negative responses.This course will provide you with a flexible framework, empowering you to create seamlessly harmonious and impactful colour palettes. There are practice activities throughout the course to help you master the art of crafting designs that are not only visually pleasing, but also have the ability to evoke a positive emotional response.Create colour combinations with confidence!This course is suitable for:Interior, web, graphic and e-learning designersBranding and marketing consultantsDesign studentsHow you will benefit:1. Enhance Your Colour Communication Skills: Gain the knowledge and vocabulary to articulate the nuances of colour confidently, enabling you to communicate your colour concepts effectively.2. Improve your Colour Recognition: Develop the ability to distinguish the different characteristics between colours increasing proficiency in your colour selection process.3. Practice Your Colour Coordination Skills: Empowering you to effortlessly create harmonious and appealing colour schemes.4. Boost Your Design Confidence: Through a deeper understanding of the different attributes of colour and practical application, you'll become more self-assured in your colour design decisions.What we’ll cover:Module 01. IntroductionIntroduction and overview with course author, designer and colour consultant expert Bernay LaityModule 02. Colour TerminologyIn this section we will be learning about some of the different words and phrases used to describe the different aspects of colour and its characteristics. This will be an important foundation for you to have a ‘language’ to describe what you see, and to be able to communicate with other designers or your clients.Module 03. Warm and Cool ColoursThe nuances between different colours are often very subtle, yet can completely change the impact of a design. In this section we’ll be learning how to identify this first characteristic of colour, which will help to build your skills for confidently selecting colours for your design projects.What is meant by cool and warm colours?How to tell the difference between themInteractive practice activitiesModule 04. Muted and Clear ColoursIn this section we’ll be learning how to identify this second characteristic of colour, which will help to build your skills for confidently selecting colours for your design projects.What is meant by muted and clear colours?How to tell the difference between themInteractive practice activitiesModule 05. Colour GroupsColour characteristics like warm, cool, clear, and muted can be divided into four distinct groups. Colours within the same group share those similar characteristics.This reveals how combining colours can either create harmony or disharmony based on whether they share similar characteristics within their group, and highlights the idea that "colour harmony" is a potent tool for designers, impacting both visual and emotional aspects.How do harmonious colours affect us?What happens when colours are not in harmony?Module 06. Colour ClassificationIn the final module of this course, you'll gain proficiency in categorising colours into their respective groups. This module will provide you with opportunities to apply and refine your colour classification skills through engaging practical challenges.How to select ‘absolute’ colours for easier colour classificationClear guidelines and helpful top tipsPractice Activities*Discover ColourColour Essentials and Colour Psychology Principles form a two-part programme designed to give you a firm foundation for understanding how to work with colour in design and influence behaviour through the principles of Applied Colour Psychology.

Overview

Section 1: Introduction

Lecture 1 Course Introduction with Bernay Laity

Lecture 2 How this course is structured

Section 2: Colour Terminology

Lecture 3 Introduction to Colour Terminology

Lecture 4 Colour Terminology

Section 3: Cool and Warm Colours

Lecture 5 Introduction to Cool and Warm Colours

Lecture 6 What are Cool and Warm Colours?

Lecture 7 Cool and Warm Yellow

Lecture 8 Cool and Warm Blue

Lecture 9 Cool and Warm Red

Lecture 10 Cool and Warm Green

Lecture 11 Practice Exercises 1&2: Introduction

Lecture 12 Cool & Warm Colours: Key Points

Section 4: Clear and Muted Colours

Lecture 13 Introduction to Clear and Muted Colours

Lecture 14 What are Clear and Muted Colours?

Lecture 15 Practice Exercises 3&4: Introduction

Lecture 16 Clear & Muted Colours: Key Points

Section 5: Colour Groups

Lecture 17 Introduction to Colour Groups

Lecture 18 What are Colour Groups?

Lecture 19 Group 1 Colours

Lecture 20 Group 2 Colours

Lecture 21 Group 3 Colours

Lecture 22 Group 4 Colours

Lecture 23 Colour Groups: Key Points

Section 6: Classifying Colours into Four Harmonising Groups

Lecture 24 Introduction to Classifying Colours into Four Harmonising Groups

Lecture 25 How to Classify Colours

Lecture 26 Practice Exercises 5&6: Introduction

Lecture 27 Practice Exercises 5&6: Answers

Lecture 28 Practice Exercise 5: Video Demonstration of Colour Classification

Lecture 29 Practice Exercise 6: Video Demonstration of Colour Classification

Lecture 30 Practice Exercises 7-10: Introduction

Lecture 31 Practice Exercise 7a & 7b: Answers

Lecture 32 Practice Exercise 8a & 8b: Answers

Lecture 33 Practice Exercise 9a & 9b: Answers

Lecture 34 Practice Exercise 10a & 10b: Answers

Lecture 35 Practice Exercises 7-10 Answers: Transcription Notes

Lecture 36 Classifying Colours - Top Tip!

Section 7: Course Summary

Lecture 37 Course Summary with Bernay Laity

Section 8: Don't Leave Yet! 6 EXTRA Tips for Classifying Colours with Confidence!

Lecture 38 Your EXTRA Tips for classifying colours!

This course is suitable for professionals working with colour including interior, web, graphic and e-learning designers, branding and marketing consultants and design students