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-Hue shifting is a technique used in art when picking colors for shading.
-Basically, when you make a color darker, you’d make it bluer and more saturated.
-When you make a lighter color, you’d make it yellower and less saturated.
-Here’s an example. This picture is exaggerated, you don’t shift the values a ton. Usually I do it just enough to notice.
Why do you hue shift?
-Shadows in real life tend to be a little blue. If you look at a picture of a shadow on a white surface, you may notice that the cast shadow isn’t completely grey, there’s a tiny bit of blue.
-This can be exaggerated to make a picture look more vibrant.
-Here’s an example of this with some of my older pixel art. The donut on the left has no hue shifting. When I made a color darker, I just decreased the luminosity. The donut on the right has hue shifting. See how it looks more vibrant?
How do I do it?
-If I want to make the color darker, I’d do this.
-If I’m making it lighter, I’d do this.
-Play around with color mixing and see what suits you!
-If you want, here’s a website that will hue shift for you!
Thank you for reading my guide! I hope you found it useful Feel free to give feedback. :)
In my previous post on the subject of vacillation, I covered the six pair combinations of the four quadrants, with some musings on how they might work out in vacillating relationships, primarily where both parties mutually vacillate between the two quadrants, and some possible exceptions.
If we assume vacillation isn’t limited to just two quadrants in one pairing, though, we get an extended version with more combinations!