Kuler - Creating a theme from a color - Lynda

Once you have logged into Kuler you are brought to the Themes page where you could browse through themes that had been created by other designers. However, one of the most exciting parts about Kuler is creating your own color themes. Let's take a quick look at how you actually create color themes using Kuler. I am going to start off by clicking on the Create button down over here on the left side. This brings me to the Create Page. As you can see over here you can either create a color theme from a color or from an image. I am going to choose right here From a Color. The first thing you will do is you actually move over here where it says Select a Rule. Kuler offers six different rules. Something called Analogous, Monochromatic, Triad, Complimentary, Compound and Shades. We will talk about Custom later as well. Once you go ahead and you choose a particular rule, for example, I will choose Monochromatic, you could then go over to the color wheel. Here click to basically move those circles around on the wheel. Let's say I choose something in the red area here, in some bright reds for example. Notice that on the bottom, I see five colors that have been created based on the positions that I put these circles on the color wheel. These five colors are referred to as a Kuler theme. What I will first do is come over here to where it says Title and I will give my theme a title. Let's call this one blood red. Next, what I will do is I will add some Tags. It's important to add as many tags as possible when you create a theme that way it will be easier to be found by either yourself or by other designers as well. So let's type in blood, valentine. Let's type in horror and let's type in just red. Notice that as I added extra words here in tags I have separated them by commas. The next step here is to actually save my theme. Now before I click on the Save button, notice on the right here I can either choose Public or Private. By choosing Public I am telling Kuler that I am allowing other designers to access my theme. By choosing Private I am only allowing Kuler to show those particular themes that I create to me. In this case here I am going to choose Public and I will click Save. After that particular theme is saved Kuler returns me to a section called Mykuler and gives me a list of all those themes that I have created. Here is one I just created called blood red. Now that you have created your first color theme you are ready to learn about all the setting that are involved in getting just the right colors that you need.