Colours on Blender

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Hey. This is a very basic question but I’m struggling with picking colors on Blender. It tends to look okay when I’m putting them together but when I add lighting it changes as a whole and I tend to make them darker. Obviously practice will make it better but I really want to know if there are any tips anyone can give me?

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You’re busy with physics as in how light works!!!

  • The color of the light influences the color (reflection) of the object
  • The object material influences the way the light is reflected in color and intensity.
  • You have different types of lamps, like the environmental light, which is dark grey.
  • The light intensity (watts)
  • Shadow casting.

Also show an example of your work, because what you think is bad or wrong. More experienced students can tell if it is normal and what to do to make it more brighter.

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Lighting changes how things look. So as you finalise your scenes you need to be looking via at least material view and some use of proper full render view in the renderer you intent for the final product. Making tweaks from that.

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Yes. I’m still trying to understand the nuances of how each part gets affected by the light and reflected light as well from material to material.

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So when picking colours in blender, by default, blender has a “filter” on it called Filmic. This can cause colours to not appear the same and can make them looked washed out.

To really see the colours well when you’re selecting colours in the viewport as they truly are, it’s often a wise idea (at least as I’ve discovered and now always default to) to change the View Transform under Color Management in the Render Settings tab to “Standard” from “Filmic”.

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This will give you the closest match to the true colour of something in the viewport and really helps to nail the correct colour values in your scene or materials. I find this really helps me and I hope it helps you too! Not sure if this is what you were looking for but I found this to be incredibly useful for me.

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This was really useful. Thank you so much Mark. I’ve changed it in my settings and it did make a subtle change in the lighting which was stark with the Standard and is a bit more natural in Filmic.
Thank you for your advice.

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I thought ‘Filmic’ is standard ON !?

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