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In this lesson I want to spend a brief amount of time just talking about some of the things that you need to know when you're about to use a digital application such as Painter. Some of the Color Properties that you'll use whether you're going to stay inside of Painter or if you're going to take your artwork and put it on something else say a 3D model, as in drawing a texture for a character for a video game. So first of all I want to talk about the difference between Hue, Saturation and Value. Now Hue is the color, it's the pigment that you're going to paint with. So a good example of Hue of course is, Blue. So what I would do is of course drop some color and that's my Hue. So what is the Saturation of this color? Well the Saturation is how powerful that color is. How much of that color is absorbed into that particular piece of artwork. The best example I can give and I usually use this one is let's say you have some Kool-Aid, you know the bright red one that you spill on shirt and that's pretty much the end of that shirt. Well let's say you're wearing a white T-Shirt, well your shirt is white at first, but when you spill the Kool-Aid on your shirt it's going to be pink at first because the red has not completely been absorbed by the cotton. As it gets darker and darker, like a cherry or strawberry flavor, that's more Saturation that's in your material. Now when you take that T-Shirt and you dip it in water the color is going to desaturate and slowly head back towards white or at least a lighter version of that red. So Saturation is full power or even more and desaturation is less color all the way to gray. Now something else that is important is Value, many artists before they even put down color will determine the Values in the image. Value is the lights, the midtones and the darks in your artwork. A good trick to see whether or not you have enough Value in your artwork is to kind of squint your eyes a little bit. Example of this is, let's say your painting clouds and it's a stormy day, well all of the cloud is not going to be dark, some of its going to be light, some of its going to be medium and some is going to be kind of dark. Now you would determine the point of exit for like lightening by having a very bright color where that lightning's coming from. So when you squint your eyes you should be able to tell where that lightening is coming from, because that part of the cloud is going to be pretty bright as far as Value is concerned and where the shadow is you're going to have more darkness. So that's an example of Value, Hue and Saturation. Now one more little thing before I finish this is the Specularity. Specularity is pretty much the hot spot that comes from a light source on a shiny object. I'll give you a good example. If you have a flat screen TV in your house, try putting on just one light in that room. What part of the TV is shinier? The screen or that little laminate plastic thing that they have around it that holds the screen into your TV? Well the screen typically is going to be a duller color, so that's going to be a pretty much a low Specularity or a glossy kind of feel. Whereas the little hot spots, the thin lines of white or the little hot spots, little white parts, that's Specularity where there's a lot of light bouncing off that material. So hopefully that'll help you out with some of the colors that we're going to use inside of Painter. So Hue, Saturation and Value, you can find out much more about these Properties by just simply going to Wikipedia or Google or any search engine and simply looking up those kinds of things. So, that's all there is for that, let's go ahead and start making some cool artwork.