Try playing around with the HSB colour selection model. In HSB (Hue, Saturation, Brightness), Hues (H) are laid out in a circular fashion, with their H values varying between 0 degrees (red) and 360 degrees (red again). If you want a colour's complementary hue, sample its H value and add 180 degrees to it (or subtract 180, whichever gives a valuw between 0 and 360) to get the complementary. Thus, red (H=0) has a complementary in cyan (H=180).
If you want a colour's full complementary, you should also invert the S and B values, which are expressed in precentages. For example, a dark desaturated red (read: brown) has a complementary in a light, saturated cyan.
HSB is available in the colour pickers of most (if not all) Adobe software.
This is only one method. There are multiple other colour models, with their own sets of complementaries. The classic complementary pair red-green, for example, are not complementary in HSB.
If it's creating colour schemes that you're after, you should try more than just complementary colours: there are multiple ways of looking for hues and colours that go well with a base colour. Try playing around with Illustrator's Color Guide ( Window > Color Guide or Shift+F3), where you can choose a base colour and multiple 'harmony rules' to create a scheme. You can try Adobe Kuler for an online version with even more customisation options.
He noticed that a person could look wonderful with one color and old and sickly with another and it mostly depended on the undertone of their skin, hair, eyes and even teeth. This experiment and further studies helped him to establish that people that have a warm skin undertone look their best in colors that also have a warm-yellow undertone. People that have a cold undertone look great in colors that have a cold-blue undertone.
Later Robert Dorr managed to develop special color palettes to provide choice and variety for each skin tone and to help with creating the many effects required by the film and television industry.
Since then his Color Analysis Methods and Palettes were being used in the creation of almost every movie. Thanks to his observations, the color of clothing became a very powerful tool that could easily express a character’s status, mood, habits and physical features.
Just the swap between clothes depending on destination was not enough for my travels. I've created a series of Bento Packing Bags that can fit multiple shoes, jeans, bulky items like a utility jacket or chunky sweaters. You can easily pack several outfits with ease in these bags.
Some Bento bags are tiny so i can pack a bikini, jewellery, sunblock or a some fruits for the beach. Now you can also add a few lavender satchels so your clothes smell nice and are ready to wear.
Once you're at your destination, just take the different sized bags out of your luggage, and your travel capsule wardrobe will be ready to wear!
The movie industry wasn’t the only industry that benefited from the work of Robert Dorr. His ideas spread further into interior design, advertising and of course fashion and cosmetics.
For example, The Seasonal Color Typology was based on Robert Dorr’s Color Key System but instead of 2 types of people it was divided into 4 seasons: Summer, Winter, Spring and Autumn.
Spring and Autumn were the Warm types, Winter and Summer were the Cold types.
The reference to 4 seasons came from Swiss-born artist and art educator Johannes Itten. The Seasonal Color Typology was based on science, logic and objectivity. It became very popular in the late 70s and of course evolved further and became more and more precise with time.
Nowadays it’s still used by Image consultants, fashion designers, stylists and costume designers all around the world. And, obviously, by me as well.