Friday, October 17, 2014

All About The Advanced Color Theory

By Patty Goff


Color is something that people in the field of both arts and science would have to learn about because it is a thing of everyday life. Now when learning about pigments and shades, one will first be learning the basics which deals more on the basic colors and mixing them. Of course when that is done, one will then be going on to the advanced color theory.

Just to give an idea for those who do not know, the basics would deal with the Color wheel that was first coined by Sir Isaac Newton. Basically, the wheel shows the different kinds of mixes of shades that would stem out from mixing the primary colors. The primary colors are red, yellow and blue and every other color is just a mix of these three.

Now after learning the basics, one will be moving on to the advanced lessons where he will encounter a little bit more computations. Now basically he will be learning about shades, brightness, and other things. However, the most basic things that he will at least learn would be the hue, chromaticity or chroma, saturation level, the value, and luminance.

Now the very first concept that one will learn about would be the hue. Now in a nutshell, the hue is the measurement on how much one primary color differs from the other two. This would actually be measured on how much light the primary colors give off and how strong they are.

The next thing to learn about would be chromaticism which would describe how colorful a color actually is. The chromaticity of a pigment will actually depend on how strong its hue is. If it has a minimum hue, it will be more colorful but if it has a maximum hue, it leans more to the side of black, white, or gray.

The next concept that one will be learning about would be saturation or simply put, intensity. Now the intensity means actually the level of the strength of brightness of a color which would also measure how much impact it has on the eyes. Now colors that are known to have high saturation are any colors that would revolve around yellow and red.

The second to the last concept is known as value. Now value is the actual measurement of the brightness. When one would say that a certain shade has a high value, he would mean that the shade has a high level of brightness.

The final concept that would be taught is the concept of luminance. Now the measurement of luminance is actually connected to the value and the saturation except the luminance deals a lot with mathematical formulas with its measurements. The luminance is measured in intensity per unit and can be calculated by getting the average of a few colors.

So for those who are learning about the basics of color, this is what they will learn when going to a higher level. The first step would be learning about primary colors and mixing them. The advanced lessons will concentrate on the details of colors and the math.




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