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listen, shrimps
-i've been in this business for over 5 long years-i've seen the good, the bad, and the oh-so ugly...
Colour is definitely one of the most important parts of graphic design, yet it's the part that a lot of people look over easily.
Colours aren't really hard to grasp, so I understand, but just as easy as it is to use colour to add beauty to a cover, it's also easy to use colour to fuck your cover up.
note : the designs used here were made by me unless stated otherwise , and are not to be copied, redistributed or edited over.
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1. MONOCHROME
Sometimes, using one colour alone isn't the way to go.
And I don't mean when you use Red, then colour pick between different VALUES and TONES in red, even bordering into pink. I mean when you use just ONE SHADE of red, never adding a bit of green hue or purple into the mix. It's JUST red.
I'm guilty of this until recently. Usually my designs would stick to ONE colour, and there's nothing wrong with that.
But look at this :
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It's too much blue.
(Update : It's also ugly but i digress)
Sometimes Monochrome can make a cover look either boring or make the colour look excessive. This is why I stopped painting a layer with a single colour and then changing the settings to hue, because it makes the cover look dull in comparison to one with more colours.
This is not to say that one colour covers aren't great, because they can be! But just always remember to add a splash of a different colour in there, just to make things pop.
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