Color

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Color
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Colors of light

• Primary Colors - Red, Green, Blue
• Secondary Colors Cyan, Magenta, Yellow. These
  colors are a combination of 2 primary colors
• All 3 colors combine to make white
• Additive color

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Colors of light
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Subtractive Colors

• mix in a way that reflects most pigment mixing
  and echoes the artists spectrum.
• The primary colors are red, yellow, blue.
• Secondary colors orange, purple, green.
• Mix them all 3 primary colors gives you black.

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Subtractive Colors
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Material Properties

• The world is made up of matter/materials.
• Materials can modify light in several ways
• Absorb light cannot pass through
• Transmit light allow to pass through
• Reflect light bounces off the material and
  scatters

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Material Properties

• Transparent material transmit light
• Translucent material transmit some of the light
  
• reaching them and absorb the rest
• Opaque material absorb all the light
• that reaches them. A 100 opaque material
• does not allow any light to pass through

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Color Modes

• RGB red, green, blue. Additive colors
• HSV(HSB) hue, saturation, value. Does not
  correspond to additive or subtractive color
• CMYK cyan, magenta, yellow, (k black) used to
  imitate process colors (subtractive colors). Use
  this mode when working from on-screen to printing
  production.

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RGB Color Mode
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CMYK Color Mode
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HSV Color Mode
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HSV color mode

• Hue name of the color
• Value refers to the contrast of dark and light.
  Can be seen as a progression from light to dark.
  Also known as brightness.
• Saturation dull or vivid quality. A saturated
  color is a hue in its strongest possible
  manifestation. Reddest Red bluest blue
  Saturated colors are also called pure /full
  colors.

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Color Gamut

• Gamut the range of colors available to a given
  display mode