Colour Grading and colour wheel

[BrianMet]

I've spent most of this year looking at colour grading (not bad for someone who prefers black and white). I thought I would post something on the subject as it was touched on at the superb portrait presentation last night at the club.
First off the colour wheel, you can buy one they do cost a few quid, bit expensive for a bit of card.
The better alternative is to check out the website www.colour.adobe.com. This gives you all the tools to show what colours work best (bit like B&Q colour paint swatches) The site also allows you to type in the hexadecimal code for a given colour.

Not sure what a hex code is? it is the computer code allocated to your 256 colour array shown in your computer #000000 = BLACK #FFFFFF =WHITE

also watch the adverts on TV 90% are now colour graded The "head and shoulder" ad is a good example

[SimonP]

Interesting Brian but the link seems dead?
Simon

[BrianMet]

strange does look dead, I went back to it by searching adobe colour wheel gets there with no issues

[RuaridhM]

Is this the one?

[BrianMet]

HI Ruaridh no it wasn't what I was looking at but it's the same thing, bit strange all these weird links