Sunday, October 19, 2014

All About The Advanced Color Theory

By Patty Goff


The color theory is an extremely important aspect to any student who is taking up an arts course like graphic design or fine arts. Mixing colors and using them is one of the things that they will be doing in both their school lives and their work which is why this has to be taught. The entire lesson is divided into two parts namely the basic and the advanced color theory.

Now if one has not taken up the basics yet, then he should at least know about the color wheel which was invented by Isaac Newton. In a nutshell, this wheel is somewhat like a chart that would be showing people the primary colors and the secondary colors that are created. The primary colors are yellow, red, and blue while the rest are all secondary colors.

After one has already finished with the basics, one will now learn about the details and the measurements of colors. Basically, he will be learning about the different types of shades as well as how to measure them. Now there are actually five basic concepts that he would be learning about namely the hue, chroma, saturation, value, and the 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.

Now the second concept on the list would be chromaticity or just simply chroma. The chroma would be measuring how colorful a pigment actually is by measuring the hue first. If one would find out that a certain shade has maximum hue, then it will have low chroma but if it has minimum hue, then it will have a high chroma.

The third concept to learn about would be saturation which measures the intensity of a pigment. When one would say intensity, he would be the strength of its brightness and how much it would affect the eyes. Colors that are bright like red, yellow, and other mixes with these are known to have high saturation.

After that, one will then be taught about value. Now the value actually measures brightness as a whole. If one pigment is bright, then it possesses a high value level as compared to one that is dark.

The very last concept on the list that will be taught would be luminance. Now in order to measure luminance, one will first be using a mathematical calculation which involves getting the average of a group of colors and using a unit that is known as intensity per unit of the source. Measuring this is actually quite like measuring saturation but it has a lot more calculations.

So if one is in a science of art course, he will definitely be learning about these theories. He will first be starting from the basic theories of colors and then will go on to the more advanced ones. He will discover how useful these advanced techniques really are.




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