dimanche 26 octobre 2014

An Overview Of The Advanced Color Theory

By Patty Goff


If one is in the field of arts, then one of the most important lessons that he will be learning would be the color theory. This is extremely important because it would teach the student how to mix colors until he is able to get the end result that he would want. If one is already an experienced artist, he will be learning 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 in the advanced theories, one will now be learning now the more complicated ways on how to blend colors. It is in here that one will learn to make different shades based on the mixture. The five basic things that one will be learning about here would be hue, chromaticism, saturation, 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 second concept that would be taught to the students would be the chroma which measures how colorful a pigment is. Now this is strongly related to the hue because it actually depends on how strong the hue is. Now if one would say that the hue is weak in a particular color, then it is known to be more colorful and vice versa.

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 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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