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Most of the time, when you're in Painter, you'll be dealing with, either the color wheel or the mixer, to choose the colors that you want to paint with. But, let's go ahead and discuss what all this means and what is all this stuff, the triangle and the circle, and all this kinds of stuff. I mean what is it a Ouija board. No it's not. It's a color wheel. And if you go to the art store you will be able to find a color wheel that has pretty much the same thing. And it helps you to choose colors to paint with. Let's break this down by starting off with the wheel itself. This ring here allows you to choose the hue that you want to paint with or the color. And hue is simply a description of whatever color is currently chosen in the spectrum. So we have our green, we have our blue and so on. And as we move the mouse around the ring the color in the triangle changes as well. We have what are known as complimentary colors and those are colors that sit opposite from one another on the ring. For example we have yellow which is the opposite of blue or a complimentary color, and so on and so forth. So all you have to do is just draw a diagonal line to find the complimentary color. Let's discuss what hue is once again. Hue is simply a color that you're painting with. Saturation is the amount of color in the hue, or the intensity of that. So if we had, let's just go ahead and just choose, I guess, purple. The best way that I describe this is to imagine you have in your hand a white paper towel and your drinking grape juice. And like myself, you're clumsy, and you spill the grape juice all over the white kitchen. Of course the wife doesn't know about it because they clean it very, very well. Getting back to the story, let's imagine we drop the paper towel onto the spill. Well, at first, if you were to look at the saturation or the soaking of the colors in the white paper towel in super slow motion, it would start off very, very desaturated. So you a get a very little tiny bit of purple and then as it soaked up more grape juice it would become fully saturated. So you'd have all that purple in there. So saturation simply means how much of that color or how intense that color is within that actual hue itself. Now what about the tint or the highlights and shadows? Well we already talked about the saturation. And by the way I want to make one more thing clear here, you can also desaturate something in a computer application so that you have almost no color. For example, all the way at the tip here is the most saturated this purple is going to get, but if I move this little circle all the way to the left of the triangle look what happens. It desaturates so much that it's now a gray scale. So all the way over here is the full saturation and all the way over here is desaturated completely. And you'll notice that all up and down the left side here we have the desaturation. Now let's talk about the value. Value simply means pretty much how light or dark is that color or that hue. So up here we have a highlight or a tint of that color and down here we have a shadow. So that's what that pretty much does here. So we have our tint and we have a shade, or a shadow of that color. So let me go ahead break this down just to reiterate. The color wheel allows you to choose the hue and as you choose the hue it changes in the triangle. Once you've selected a hue you can then choose how saturated or desaturated that color is. How much of that color or how intense that color is. And then you choose a highlight, a tint or a shade of said color.