Wednesday, 18 March 2015

Colour Theory - Part 1

COLOUR THEORY
SYSTEMATIC COLOUR PART 1

WHY HOW DO KNOW THAT THE APPLE IS RED?
>Because it's the reddest thing that we can see on screen


>Colour  - wave lengths and perception
    - red, green and blue cones - fooled to see the other colours

>Colour is effected by the condition that it's in
>Colour theory was invented for us to understand colour.
      - Johannes Itten - 'The art of colour'

>Primary colours/pigments
>Complimentary - visual opposites
       - If they're mixed - they cancel each other out
                - neutral grey brown
                        - absence of colour

>Spectral colour
     - The eye can't see the difference between spectral yellow and some combinations of red and green

--Must remember:
RGB - FOR DIGITAL/SCREEN
CMYK - PRINTING

>Subtractive colour mode - CMYK - when mixed - reduces colours - black - PHYSICAL
>Additive colour mode - RGB - deal with light - increase - white light - OPTICAL


CHROMATIC VALUE - How to define colour
Hue + Tone + Saturation

HUE - Shade of colour - name of colour

LUMINANCE - Shades - darker, Tints - lighter = TONE

SATURATION - Tint - the amount of colour that's there

PANTONE - colour matching system

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