Investigating Color
a collaborative presentation
by dm2
Hue
By Arturo Colon
What does Hue mean and what is it?
• Hue is another word for color
• When you hear someone say the word hue
they mean the color has a tint in it and other
colors might be in it
Hue Examples
Wavelength (in color)
What exactly is wavelength?
 The order of colors in light,
arranged from shortest wavelength to
longest, is called the visible spectrum
of light. You might recognize the
spectrum as the order of colors in a
rainbow.
How does wavelength relate to digital
media ?
• Wavelength relates to
digital media because
digital media focuses on
the color and what’s
appearing to the human
eye just like light
spectrums in
wavelengths.
Wavelength is measured in units of distance: mm, cm, m, nano
meters, micro meters, etc
Wavelength Spectrum
Color intensity
Andrea Castillo
Definition
Intensity is the purity or strength of a color. You can change the intensity of a color
by adding white, black, gray, or the color's complement or opposite color on the
color wheel.
Examples
A color's complement, if added to that color,
will lower its intensity.
If you wish to tone down a bright, pure
color and lower the saturation, add both
black and white together (gray), or the
color's opposite on the color wheel.
It's often advantageous to paint with a
variety of intensities, to avoid a
simplistic, "too sweet" effect.
Color Wheel
• An illustrative organization of color hues around a
circle that shows relationships between primary colors,
secondary colors, complementary colors, and so on.
• There are many variations of how it’s portrayed.
• It displays how colors are represented in the light color
spectrum.
Color Wheel: Purpose(s)
• Many artists and designers use it to:
 Mix colors.
 Determine colors.
 Select colors.
• In other words, it graphically shows what
colors to mix to get the effect you want.
• It is the basis
Examples:
• In terms of determining color, color schemes are often
used, for example:
– Monochromatic: only one color from the wheel is used.
Interest is generated by using different values of the color
ranging from light to dark.
– Complimentary: colors that are opposite on the color wheel
is used, opposites intensify each other.
– Analogous (Harmonious): the colors used are adjacent to
each other on the color wheel. Three to six colors are used
with one predominating.
Primary Colors
By: Marisol Aranda
Primary Colors
• Red, Yellow and Blue
• Cannot be made by other colors mixed
together
• When mixed they can create other colors
Secondary Colors
What are Secondary colors?
• When you get a three new mixtures are called
secondary colors.
• Secondary colors are formed when two
primary colors are blended together.
• Black and white are not a secondary colors.
Secondary Colors Examples
Teach Us Color
• Tint- is a delicate or pale color. A
color is made lighter by adding
white.
Photo
• Photographs brings focus to everything
surrounding photography, digital cameras,
digital photographs, stock photography,
photo products, online photo and camera
resources, tips, tricks, and techniques.
What Is Digital Media Art?
• Artistic expression has evolved through the
ages of human civilization based on the tools
we have at hand. Ten thousand years ago our
ancestors painted on cave walls with natural
pigments.
Saturation
Dai’Jah Curry
What Is Saturation?
• Saturation refers to the brightness or
dullness of colors.
What Does It Do.?
• Applying saturation effects to an image slightly increases the file
size, but makes it more attractive. For example, an original company
logo with a file size of 8 kilobytes does not boast vibrant colors. If it
is slightly saturated, the logo becomes brighter and more colorful,
but the file size increases by 1 kilobyte.
Saturation Scale
• A saturation scale demonstrates the effects of mixing
complementary colors together. You will learn some of the finer
points of color adjusting and will mix an achromatic gray using
colored paints. The first step is to find an exact set of
complements. You will then construct a scale that goes from
one hue to it's complement in a series of steps with gray in the
middle.
MONOCHROM
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By: Jessica Villalobos
Definition
• A painting or drawing in different shades of a
single color.
• Different shades of a single color.
• One color
Examples
Color Temperature
What is color temperature?
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Color temperature is way of describing the
color characteristics of light. Each light
source has its own individual “color
temperature”. When the color temperature
is high, more blue light exists. When the
color temperature is low, there is more
red.
Color temperature is measured in Kelvin
Examples
http://www.apogeephoto.com/july2004/jalte
ngarten7_2004.shtml
Warm Colors
Alexa Rivas
Bring feelings
of excitement, passion and
sometimes aggression.
Associated with fire, heat,
sun, and warmer
temperatures.
Digital Media & Warm Colors
Capturing landscapes :
•Bright colors= Eye catcher
Cool colors
By Azucena Juarez
Definition
• Cool colors = calming effect. Blue, green, and
purple are examples of cool colors. In nature
blue is water and green is plant life.
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http://www.mat.ucsb.edu/~wakefield/amv/theory-color.htm
Examples
Variegated
• It’s actual definition is to give variety to
something or someone.
• What this actually means is that you make the
object more appealing to the eye. (Whether
this makes it stand out or make it less lame). It
makes it Pop!
• Great examples are before and after pictures
of an image.
Some examples of
Variegated:
A redesigned kitchen.
A funny example, a
redesigning of Michael.
COMPLEMENTARY COLORS
By: Claudia Ramos
What does that mean?
• A color directly opposite another on a color
wheel and providing the greatest chromatic
contrast to it
A few more facts..
• In color theory, two colors are called
complementary if, when mixed in the proper
proportion, they produce a neutral color (grey,
white, or black).
• A Complementary or Contrasting Color
Combination is derived from choosing colors
that are directly opposite each other on the
color wheel. When they are mixed together,
they will produce gray.
What is analogous Color?
 Analogous colors are next to each
other on the color wheel
 They are pleasant to the human eye
because they are so closely related
 Blend well together
Examples of analogous
Neutral Colors
David Lopez
What are Neutral Colors?
• They are the ugly colors.
• Colors that are not bright like red and green
and yellow.
• They are opaque colors.
• They have undertones of color.
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• These types of colors are usually used in
house decorating.
• And arent seen that much around in fashion.
Color Management
• Handles the different appearances on COLOR.
• The way they determine the closest color
range is by using an ICC profile.
• ICC manages the way
color is converted from
one device to another.
Color Management
• Making sure that the colors syncs
correctly with the different devices you
present with.
• For example:
– When you make a red box in illustrator and
print it out the colors wont sync correctly
because the software manages the color
from the ICC profile.
– Converting the CMYK from the software to
a different format like RGB when printing
Color Management
• For example, the
colors you see from an
LCD screen to a
projector to a HDTV
screen to paper
• Color management
makes sure the colors
convert effectively, or
as close to the original
file to create a better
visual.
The International Color Consortium is a
system that converts the color from one
system to another.
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Full Color Modes
CMYK-Cyan Magenta Yellow Key (Blue, Black, Brown)
RGB-Red Green Blue
Lab- color-opponent space with dimension L for lightness and a
and b for the color-opponent dimensions.
• HSB- (Hue Saturation Brightness) Each value is represented by a
number. The more this value tends to 0, the brighter the color is.
The more this value tends to 100 the darker the color is.
• HSL- (Hue Saturation Lightness) Saturation indicates the purity of a
color. Highly saturated colors are vivid, while desaturated colors are
dull or dirty. Saturation characterizes colorfulness relative to a
neutral gray of the same brightness. It is represented by the
distance from the center of the color wheel.
• Basic Color Modes
• Indexed- Palette
• Grayscale- Gray, White, Black
• Special Color Modes
• Duotone- Duotone is a halftone reproduction
of an image using the superimposition of one
contrasting color halftone over another color
halftone.
• Multichannel-Designed for storage of masks
and for specialized printing.
RGB Color Mode
By: Hiram Cano
• This color mode is mainly the use of Red,
Green, Blue and how they mix into one
another to create other color affects.
• It may sometimes be displayed through a
cathode-ray tube; meaning it portrays a beam
of light through it.
• They use RGB to display the pictures or images
we see on a computer screen.
• This technique creates very clear images and
precise.
EXAMPLES:
CMYK Color Mode
-Marcy
Short for Cyan-Magenta-Yellow-Black
What is CMYK Color Mode ?
• This is the final look of the colors when
printed.
• Graphic designers use CMYK to see how the
picture will look when wanting to print. They
see their work on screen in RGB, but their final
printed piece will be in CMYK.
• Changing the RGB colors into CMYK colors that
way what gets printed looks the same as what
looks like on the monitor.
Examples
What is spot color?
Spot color is color reproduced by an
opaque, premixed, standard ink chosen
from a color system
Process color is reproduced from using
translucent inks of primary colors Cyan,
Magenta, Yellow, and Black (CMYK)
Examples of spot color
Lab Color Mode
Cristina Irizarry
What is LAB Color Mode?
Lab Color Mode is based on human perception
of color. The numeric values in Lab describe all
the colors that a person with normal vision
sees. LAB Color mode has a lightness
component (L) that can range from 0 to 100.
What LAB Color Mode can do!
Color Model
By: Brianna W
What is it?
• A color model is a system for making a
range of colors from a small set of
primary colors.
Types of Color Models
• The two most common colors models are
the RGB model (Red-Blue-Green) and the
CMYK model (Cyan-Magenta-BlackYellow). The RGB is used for computer
displays, and the CMYK used for printed
material.
Examples
RGB Model
CMYK Model
Color Space
By: Crystal Guzman
Definition
• Color space is a model that describes the
different values of colors.
Examples:
Gamut
Deondre Ivory
What is Gamut?
• In color reproduction, including computer
graphics and photography, it is a certain
complete subset of colors.
• The entire range of colors available on a
particular device such as a monitor or printer.
What does Gamut Do?
• It is referred to the complete set of colors
found within an image at a given time.
• It helps select the color you need.
Ex. When we did the color wheel project.
Gamut
A Typical CRT Gamut