Hueshifting is Easy!

April 22, 2020

There are three very important parts to color.

1. Lightness

2. Saturation

3. Hue

The first is simply how light something is. The example shows the purple getting lighter and lighter. The second is how much color it has. In the example, it starts out being a vibrant purple, but then fading to gray.

The third is what this blog is about. Hueshifting!

What is hueshifting? To many people, it's a complicated technique used by experienced skinners. It's not! A simple definition of hueshifting is:

"The process of changing one color to another."

Still probably seems confusing. That's okay. I'm here to go more in depth with hueshifting!

Here is an example of non-hueshifted hair:

I didn't hueshift at all on this example. Below, is what it would look like if you hueshifted.

See the difference?

That was just the first part! Below, I will explain how to actually do that!

Here is the process of the non-hueshifted hair.

As you can see, all I'm doing is moving the inner circle up. The bottom circle (on the colored ring) doesn't move at all.

You might need to look at the pictures above a little more to see the change.

Here's what the color wheel looks like when I'm hueshifting.

I'm moving the inner circle up, as well as moving the bottom circle to the right.

It looks like there's no difference, but a tiny one is there!

Again, here is my definition of hueshifting.

"The process of changing one color to another."

In the example, you can see how the dark blue started to fade into the light teal. That's hueshifting!

Like all things, hueshifting requires a LOT of practice. You don't start out being the best at it. You need to work at it, and most of all, experiment with it.

Thank you very much for reading today's blog!