How To Match Colors

This creates a dynamic vivid and playful effect.

How to match colors.

Download a paint matching app if you can t take a sample. In this case the colors differ from each other in tone but are also complementary. You can use the same process with camtasia to match the color of callouts text and other shapes to specific colors in a video. 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.

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. Violet orange red yellow blue green. For example you could try red and pink yellow and orange or blue and purple.

When you re matching colors try to pair warm colors with warm colors and cool colors with cool colors since they ll go well together. 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. Simply put complementary colors are on opposite sides of the color wheel from each other. To match colors try choosing analogous colors which are colors that are next to each other on the color wheel.

A combination of 4 colors that are equidistant from each other on the color circle. 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.