Color Harmony 2 with The Palette Picker: A Guide to Creative Color Combinations [Paperback]

Bride M. Whelan (Author)

Book Description

Series: This Bk Per Pub Is Titled Palette Picker Enough Thou the Bk Says Color Harmony 2. Isbn 156496419 Is Titled Palette Picker Isbn 1564960668 Is Just Book | Publication Date: June 1997

The color combinations in Color Harmony are a click away with Rockport's new Palette Picker software. Interactively search for color combinations under words like "Hot," "Friendly," and "Analogous," or select a hue from an easy-to-use color wheel. Like the colors you've chosen and want to save them all in one place? With Palette Picker, you can save thousands of combinations in your own custom lists. Plus, online help is there to make exploring this powerful utility an adventure.

Color Harmony 2 is an invaluable tool for anyone working with color. From graphic designers to interior decorators, from fashion designers to floral arrangers, this book can help anyone create effective color schemes for any project.

--Colors and color schemes matched to specific moods provide unique color and design possibilities. --12 basic hues with 94 tints and shades give more than 1,400 color combinations in single-,two-, and three-color schemes. --Vivid color photographs illustrate many different color combinations. --Color swatches and a color conversion chart assure easy and accurate color matching. --Easy-to-follow lessons in basic color theory.

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About the Author

Bride M. Whelan, an instructor at Parsons School of Design, New York City, teaches basic and advanced courses in color theory. For many years she taught graphic design at Paier College of Art, New Haven, Connecticut, and lectures extensively on a variety of design-related topics.

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How to Use Color:

Working with color to achieve intended results can be a challenge, but it can also be fun! An effective color scheme can make a room feel warm and inviting, a graphic design able to attract attention, or a poster to recall days gone by. Before learning what colors to use in order to achieve the best results, one must first understand some basic color terms.

Each primary, secondary, and tertiary hue is at a level of full saturation, or brightness, which means that there is no black, white, or gray added. Color is described in terms of value, which is the lightness or darkness of a color, or the relative amount of white or black in a hue. White added in increments to any of the twelve colors results in lighter values of the hue called tints. For example, pink is a tint of the primary color red. The incremental addition of black or gray to a hue results in darker values of the hue known as shades. A shade of red is burgundy or maroon. The color chart on the following pages illustrates these shades and tints.

Product Details

• Paperback: 160 pages
• Publisher: Rockport Publishers (June 1997)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1564964019
• ISBN-13: 978-1564964014
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.8 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 14.1 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,433,768 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Good book, but the CD is severely outdated., September 6, 2000

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"krrichardson" (Boston, MA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Color Harmony 2 with The Palette Picker: A Guide to Creative Color Combinations (Paperback)

While I found the book to be useful, especially in the 'classic' swatch sections, the 'trendy' area is a bit outdated, being it's six years old.

Also, you're better off buying the version without the CD. Be cautioned, the CD is old, written for Windows 3.1 and Windows 95, uses a primitive 'drag folder onto your hard drive, click file and choose program to associate with' install procedure, and uses an included, older version of Oracle Media Objects player to run...it will not work on Windows NT 4.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

3.0 out of 5 stars Two Color Harmony 2's are the same book, June 21, 2000

By A Customer

This review is from: Color Harmony 2 with The Palette Picker: A Guide to Creative Color Combinations (Paperback)

There's a lot of confusion about the two versions of Color Harmony 2 because the difference seems to be the CD -- both versions credit Bride M. Whelan as author; the less expensive version doesn't come with the CD (which I haven't used).

The comments on color combinations have been helpful in convincing client/coworkers -- "but this is a Professional palette!" The book's palettes can be a useful starting place.

One caveat: written in 1994, the New Trends section is a bit dated, unfortunately.

7 of 8 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Color Harmony 2 : Guide to Creative Color Combinations, December 10, 1999

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Ralph Wirth - See all my reviews

This review is from: Color Harmony 2 with The Palette Picker: A Guide to Creative Color Combinations (Paperback)

This is a very good color reference book if you're in a hurry for some attractive color combinations and suffering from mental block. It has been very handy in web page creation also.