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Hexels add color to palette series#

Welcome back to my series of Hexels tutorials. You could even draw a picture there! (This is a flower and grass and a sun.) Hexels So next time you fire up Hexels, take a new look at that plain-looking empty grid. yellow, black, and chocolate), so all your bases should be covered. Hexels 2.55 even added support for importing Lab color (i.e.

aco palettes from Photoshop as well as export back to the format. Gradients can quickly populate an entire grid of colors. Behold! The Hexels palette lets you create gradients in RGB or HSV color space.Ĭreating vertical gradients between the two takes just a few seconds and gives us a nice color selection. Click the little gear icon at the lower right of the palette and you can select HSV gradients. Hexels will even create multi-color gradients that hit every color it finds along the way. The layout of your palette can help you keep track of what’s what.Īutomatic Gradients Drag and drop a color onto another to create gradients!ĭo you find it somewhat tedious to carefully pick eight evenly spaced colors between salmon and magenta? Then we have the solution for you! Hexels allows you to create gradients right on the color palette by dropping one existing color onto another color in the same row or column.

Double-click again to edit the new color swatch. Or you can double-click to add the currently selected color anywhere you want. Colors can be dragged and dropped anywhere on the palette, and even copied if you hold alt. While Hexels can’t tell you where you put your keys or what time dinner is, its palette can help you organize your mind. “Organize your mind, organize your life.” As of version 2.55, Hexels even supports importing Lab colors (yellow, black, chocolate, probably others).Although it looks deceptively like a plain old list of colors, the color palette in Hexels 2 has got a few tricks up its sleeve. Hexels can import and export Photoshop’s. The shortest path across the hue rainbow may not always be what you expect.

Note: The color wheel is a circle, it loops around. This means yellow and blue can make green again! HSV gradients are formed across the rainbow of hue instead of blending red, green, and blue components individually. You can set the color palette to use HSV gradients by clicking on the little gear icon. Blends between some RGB colors can look muddied and gray (pop quiz: what’s yellow + blue? You guessed it, a drab gray). Color-Space TravelĬolor palette gradients can be formed in two different ways, two different dimensions of color: RGB color-space and HSV color-space.

Paint a pretty tree with your shiny new gradient ramps. Hexels can even create multi-color gradients, hitting every color swatch along the way as it fills in the empty gaps.ĭrag and drop a color onto another to create gradients! All empty swatches in between will be filled with beautiful new hues and shades. Having trouble finding the eight perfect color steps between salmon and magenta? Hexels allows you to create gradients right on the palette by dragging one color swatch onto another.