Ever wish you understood color better than you do? A great place to start is Hue, Saturation, and Brightness, or HSB. These three controls allow you to define any color you can imagine.

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[CHAPTERS]
00:00 A Comprehensive Exploration of HSB
01:07 Working inside the Adobe Color Picker
02:45 Resetting the Color Picker to Hue
03:32 A Brief Note about the Hex # Value
04:36 HSB vs. RGB, CMYK, and Lab
07:57 Hue: The Perceived Color, in Degrees
09:42 The Hue Wheel
10:21 Downloading My HSB Asset Files
10:48 RGB and CMYK Mapped inside the Hue Wheel
13:56 A Primary Hue Every 60 Degrees
14:53 Complementary Color Theory
16:58 For a Color Complement, Add or Subtract 180°
19:34 Saturation: From Full-On Color to White
20:53 Hue + Saturation = Color
21:34 Perceptual Saturation Variations
22:59 The Effect of Brightness on the Color Wheel
26:12 Brightness: From Full-On Color to Black
28:26 The Theoretically Perfect HSB Cone
31:43 Perceptual Brightness Variations
34:25 The HSB Cone with Perceptual Colors
35:43 The 2D Color Wheel with Points of Interest