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Understanding Color Theory Basics

This document discusses color and how it is perceived. It explains that color is created by light and is affected by pigments. There are two main color systems - additive RGB used for screens which combines red, green and blue light, and subtractive CMYK used for printing which combines cyan, magenta, yellow and black pigments. The document also outlines primary and secondary colors, and how color ranges from hot to cold depending on the presence of red or blue tones.

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Understanding Color Theory Basics

This document discusses color and how it is perceived. It explains that color is created by light and is affected by pigments. There are two main color systems - additive RGB used for screens which combines red, green and blue light, and subtractive CMYK used for printing which combines cyan, magenta, yellow and black pigments. The document also outlines primary and secondary colors, and how color ranges from hot to cold depending on the presence of red or blue tones.

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Unit 2.

Color
Educacin Plstica y Visual

Color

It doesnt matter how the

painting is put on as lon as something is said

Color
We see everything that surround us in
color. Color allows us to see the shape of some objects, color can cause different feelings and emotions the blue of the sky in sunset

Color is in constant change: for example

Color
We perceive colors through: The sense of sight Light The chemical properties of

objects

We have to know that light is what gives


color, in other words, color is light

Light-Color
The colors produced by light (on the
monitor of your computer, films, television, etc..) Have the primary colors, red, green and blue (RGB), whose fusion of these colors, create and compose white light that's why this mix is called, additive synthesis and partial mixtures of these lights give rise to most of the colors of the visible spectrum violet

Primary lights are red, green and blue Secondary lights are yellow, cyan and
magenta

RGB (additive synthesis)

Pigment color
Pigments are colorants that are mixed
with more or less liquid binder for paint (for example in the oil binds the pigment with linseed oil)

Pigment color (subtractive synthesis)


It is called subtractive color mixing
because when we mix the colors they lose brightness and cyan and red

The primary colors are: yellow, magenta The secondary colors are: green, purple

CMYK (subtractive synthesis)

Cromatic circle

Primary Colors Secondary Colors Terciary Colors

Red Blue Yellow Green Violet Orange purplish red, orange red, orange yellow, greenish yellow, greenish blue and blue violet

Color in digital imagen and graphic arts


When we talk about color in technology RGB is an additive system (red, green,
blue) used in digital pictures on TV or web pages or tools that work with light is necessary to speak of the system RGB and CMYK

CMYK is a subtractive system that is

used in printing, print and graphic arts in general

Ranges
Is the set of
colors that are interrelated

The hot line is one in which red is present


in greater or lesser extent color has more presence

The cold line is the one in which blue

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