What Is Color And Why It Is Important
Lesson 2 from: Color Theory and Its Applications in Photoshop®Viktor Fejes
What Is Color And Why It Is Important
Lesson 2 from: Color Theory and Its Applications in Photoshop®Viktor Fejes
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2. What Is Color And Why It Is Important
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What Is Color And Why It Is Important
it's the color is like, you know, like color perception to be exactly like like taste. It's very difficult to pinpoint it. And that's why you know all the colors you can't name, and most in times if you can name the color, you know that color on you can see on the slide. We have this like the whole spectrum of color, and then you can see like we have bread, for example, and reds. Like scientifically speaking, it has, like wavelength of. I'm not going to say any exact numbers because I don't know, but it's like a wavelength from from a number to a number. So it's not not like one wave length. It is just like a range. So how can you say, then that's what it is, you know? Varies. The next one is like for this, like it's no easy Teoh talk about color in a way, when we don't even know, we see the same colors. For example, I call this blue on. Everyone else calls this blue, but maybe someone sees it like I see yellow, which is something that hasn't bean like researched, I think I mean it has...
been research but no conclusion has been met yet. I think with this. That's why it's not easy. How can we know? We see the same things on the The thing is that it's very certain that these colors mean very specific things, right. It's easy, like we know that red means like anger and stuff. What is it? The case all the time. So those specific things can change from culture to culture. So that's why, in my class of think like a researcher, I talked about how you have to consider the audience you have to consider cultural differences on. This is also what I mean by that because, you know, in Western cultures this is, you know, like good luck is mostly like the color associated with the color green. While like in Chinese culture, that would be like red. You can see clearly that while you know the notion of death, I think it's just so, so prominent in a way like why would death be anything but black? Right? It's just a horrible thing in a way. But then, in the Chinese culture, it's just it's a white, which is associated in Western culture with wedding celebrations and clean stuff. So it's just I think it's very interesting, and because of these differences, it's I. This is why it becomes like a very difficult topic to speak about, because how can you speak about something that varies between people and it's not just cultures? You know what comes into play is like your age. Your, for example, personal preferences. You had a group. Good childhood memory would like the color red. So you are going to, like, read. You have this personal preference dio and then also your gender. We have all these, you know, pre, you know, like those things like in our culture like babies, for example, like pink is like girl color, like blue is like a red color. So if I were to come out and say, Well, I like pink or my favorite color is pink, mostly at at least where we're at right now, some people would see me like, you know, in an interesting night is what I would say for some reason, like it doesn't belong there, which is not true. It's just a color, right? There's just a wavelength of the spectrum of light. So what does it matter, But it matters because, you know, we have this perception, and I knew that anything I utter right now seems like it doesn't correlate to retouching. But it does, because even though you don't sit down and go through these slides and just think about all these things after one another, But you have to think about color and how it's going to perceive and how your audience is going to perceive anything that you could on your image or anything. Anyone put on that image like photographer. So, like when colors, this is, you know, look pleasing. That's that color harmony. So that's what we call. And that's what we are going Teoh kind of dive into and then try to apply it to an image. Hopefully not just trying but actually doing it, which is, I think that's a great thing. Also, it's it's getting a bit overworked right now because everyone in the retouching community is so obsessed with would like color harmonies. They're just trying to apply to everything and you know it should work. But when you don't apply it correctly, which happens sometimes it just feels like so out of place and like you are trying, Teoh aggressively do something that you should not do with something. So that's why, as I said, it's a very complex notion. Andi. If let's say Picasso would not be able to pinpoint why we like certain colors next to each other, I wouldn't say like we know for Riel. What color goes well together. There are certain, as I set systems and rules, we're going to look at those when, other than that, it's just all around interesting things. So, yeah, there is actually like a mathematical equation to what we find pleasing, which is obviously trying to get the human element out of it. But it goes like it tries. Tiu have, like the before, things just to go back here. The age, gender, personal preference and those things in one equation, while also having the colors Andi trying to describe the whole thing like this should go together because your preferences like that and your gender is like that. So there is, but you know you can't really apply it, so it's not really definitive fact, but nevertheless, the things that are like facts are color systems. Color systems are like argue bcm y que, on another one that we're going to take a look at what is going to be a surprise. To some reason, I don't know why, but it's going to be so the way a computer works and let's go to RGB because that's the easiest. When I think, think about light, let's grab a handful of light. I have a handful of lights here. I grab another handful here, put it together and it becomes more like right. It's just plus light, but think about something and we're going to go back and forth. Think about paint. If I were to, you know, have some paint on, I just put it here and another one here, and I'm just going to, you know, just together they are going to be darker because I'm mixing them on. That's you know what you need to consider about these very, you know, to color systems, because RGB I think about you monitor. I think this is the easiest way to think about this. It works with light. It has like a medical device, but you know, the pixels work in a certain way that if they are maxed out, it's going to give you white. If they are not on or just very slightly, it's going to be like black or like very dark grey. It depends on the type of wanted, so you have. So that's why this is basically called like an additive system because you add, it's about life. And that's why C M y que is subtracted. No, because you are subtracting paint, but it's because it's about light you because it is getting darker the more you mix into this whole thing. As I said, just think about paint. The reason they used C M y que in the printing process is that combining those basic colors going to give you the highest chroma that you can you can achieve basically with other, like the 3rd 1 we're going to look at right now, you could not be able to reach that level of, you know, let's say like quality. I think that would simplify this. So the 3rd 1 which for some reason I don't know why I kept a surprise, is like an R Y B system. You have Teoh remember back to elementary school, where you were taught that the basic colors are red yellow and blue. And that's why because you could not mix those colors and get those colors by mixing other colors together, you know, that's why they are, you know, basic colors, which is just try to remember this. It's not really hard, obviously are. Why be on then? We have the RGB so like the green and the yellow is, you know, different. That's actually going to come handy later trip. So this is basically what you have to deal with with color systems. There are other color system obviously bought. It's not really important in terms of retouching because you go in most of the times you're going to be retouching your image in RGB on Ben, you are going to be applying a color theory of the system of the R Y B. We'll tell you later why on then, maybe you're going to convert it to see him like a basically, that's, you know, And once again, this is how I do things there. There may be some other people who do you differently. I don't know about that. I kind live in a vacuum. That's very nice. So, yeah, that's just to keep in mind
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