The document discusses different color schemes for creating presentations including monochromatic, analogous, complementary, and split complementary schemes. It explains how to use the color wheel to select primary and secondary colors, and how to create tints and shades. It then provides instructions for applying a complementary color scheme of blue and orange with tints and shades to PowerPoint slides and asks which combination would be easiest and hardest to read.

1. CREATING A COLOR SCHEME Karen Ballengee October 2008

2. Primary Colors Red Yellow Blue

3. Secondary Colors Created when two primary colors are added Green Orange Violet

4. Color Wheel Uses All the Primary Colors, Secondary Colors, and Colors in Between

5. Tints and Shades Tints -add white Shades -add black

6. Color Schemes Monochromatic Analogous Complementary Split Complementary

7. Monochromatic

8. Analogous

9. Complementary

10. Split Complementary

11. How do I use this information to create beautiful Power Point Slides?

12. Go to the Design Tab

13. In the Design Menu… Click Colors Scroll down to create new theme colors

14. Click on Create More Colors

15. A Color palette similar to the color wheel will appear

16. Click the Custom Tab Pick a Color A scale of the tints and shades of that color will appear

17. We’re going to use Complementary using blue and orange

18. Blue and Orange with Tints and Shades

19. Based on our color scheme, which rectangle is easiest to read? Which is the hardest?

20. Reference Holtzschue, L. (2006). Understanding Color: An Introduction for Designers . Hoboken, NJ: John Wiley and Sons.