I’m using Clip Studio Paint, but you can use Photoshop or any other program with a Hue function

This is a really useful trick if you want to either test the colours you’ve chosen for a complex art piece or change the colour system for a client without going through each individual layer and changing them.

I use it all of the time to tip my graphics toward warm or cool colours and to test whether another colour ratio might be a better choice. Its a good way of making sure that a run of related artwork – like magazine illustrations, postcards etc. – has a good-looking colour system that applies to each piece.

Its simple to do. Just add a Hue adjustment on a layer that affects *every channel* and then gently sweep through the spectrum. Each and every colour will be changed to a different shade by the same amount, thus preserving your ratios.

If you want to keep a layer out of the sweep, then place it above the adjustment layer.

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AI isn’t something we use at Engine Head. That’s no shade on anyone who does – we just prefer to use our brains and our hands and our creativity to make things and solve problems.

If you use it and enjoy it, then good luck to you!

Its worth noting that sometimes the design process and the operations of creativity will throw up visuals that you don’t like. This is normal and its a valuable part of finding visuals that you love.

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