- Hue: Is the word that describes the pure spectrum of color
- Value: Is the relative darkness of lightness of a color
Example of Color Value - Saturation: Is how pure or vivid Hue is
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- Secondary Color: Is a color resulting from the mixing of two primary colors (Red, Yellow, or Blue).
- Tertiary Colors: Are the resulting color formed when an equal amount of primary and secondary color are mixed.
- Complementary Colors: Are colors directly opposite each other in the color spectrum.
Example of a Traditional Color Wheel Example of a Photoshop (RGB) Color Wheel - Primary Colors in Photoshop: RGB( Red, Green, Blue) and CMYK(Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black)
- Secondary Colors in Photoshop: These are the colors you get when you mix any two of the primary colors in photoshop.
- Subtractive Color Model: Explains the mixing of limited set of dyes, inks, paint pigments or natural colorants to create a wider range of colors, each the result of partially or completely subtracting some wavelengths of light and not others.
- Additive Color Model: Is the RGB color model in which red, green and blue light are added together in various ways to reproduce a broad array of colors.
- RGB is an additive color model.
- The CYMK color model is a subtractive door model, used in color printing, and is also used to describe the printing process itself.
- Analogous Colors: This color scheme uses colors that are adjacent to each other on the color wheel. one color is used as a dominant color while others are used to enrich
- Tint: This is a shade or a variety of colors.
- Shade: Comparative darkness and coolness caused by shelter from direct sunlight.
- Neutral: Is not helping or supporting either side in a conflict, disagreement, etc.; impartial.
- Monochromatic: Means it is containing or using only one color.
- Warm Colors in general are made up of reds, yellows, oranges, and a combination of all three together. These colors symbolize warmth like the sun, fire, or a summers day.
- Cool Colors in general are made up of greens, blues, purples, and a mix of all three. These colors are meant to symbolize the cold like ice, snow, or winter.
- The color Blue is associated with stability.
- The color Purple is associated with royalty and magic.
- White is the color most associated with cleanliness.
- Green is the color associated with freshness.
- Yellow and Orange are the colors that are the closest in association with joy.
- Red is the color that represents passion and danger.
Example of the Color Red's Meaning |