How To Match Colors

Simply put complementary colors are on opposite sides of the color wheel from each other.

How to match colors.

In the three steps that follow i demonstrate how to use the color picker in snagit to match an exact color found in an image. Visit the app store on your smartphone and choose an app that will scan your wall color and provide you with a color match. Wear one knockout shade a cayenne sheath and matching pumps to turn an outfit into an exclamation point. If an absolute match isn t critical you might eyeball the paint options at the store and choose one that seems the closest to the color you want to match.

Violet orange red yellow blue green. This means they re high contrast pairs so the key to using two complementary colors and without looking like a clown is to make one of them a darker shade. Most major paint brands have their own apps for matching paint colors including sherwin williams behr glidden and valspar. You can use the same process with camtasia to match the color of callouts text and other shapes to specific colors in a video.

In this case the colors differ from each other in tone but are also complementary. This creates a dynamic vivid and playful effect. Download a paint matching app if you can t take a sample. For example if you want to wear green pants and a red shirt and it s not christmas and you re not going to a holiday theme party simply.

The color matching feature in most color pickers is indicated by an eyedropper icon. A combination of 4 colors that are equidistant from each other on the color circle.