Some Notes on Color, from the "Elements of Design and Composition " lecture.

• Hue: Hue refers to the color itself. Each different hue is a different reflected wavelength of light. 
• Value: value refers to the lightness or darkness of the hue. Adding white to a hue produces a tint.
• Intensity: Intensity, also called chroma or saturation. It refers to the brightness of a color
• Temperature: describing a color by how cool or warm a color is.

Monochromatic: The color plus white and the color plus black. In other words, various tints of a hue

Analogous: Colors that are side by side on the color wheel .

Complementary: Colors that opposite eachother on the color wheel.

Split Complementary: Two colors that are directly on either side of the color that is opposite.

Triad:  Three colors that are equally spaced on the color wheel

Tetrad: Four colors that are equally spaced on the color wheel

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Resolution and Pixel Dimensions 

Resolution refers to the number of Pixels per square inch of printed (or screen display) output. 

To determine resolution divide the image’s width in pixels by width in inches. For example, if you have an image that is 8” wide and 2400 pixels, you would divide 2400 by 8 to obtain the resolution of 300 ppi (pixels per inch). 

 Color Theory and Basic Shapes

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Chapter 5 Sandbox - Digital Foundations

"Color has always been present in our natural environment and in art across the world. From the 30,000-year- old Chauvet-Pont-d'Arc cave drawings in southeastern France, where the creators used carbon black and ochre pigments to represent Paleolithic horses, to the Tournament of Roses Parade on January 1, 1954, which was the first national television broadcast in color, color has been a focus of artistic creation.

Artists, mathematicians, and scientists have developed theories of color since the 17th century. Color theories are usually encapsulated in what is referred to as a color model. German Bauhaus school educators Josef Albers and Johannes Itten helped define and expand upon the RYB (red-yellow-blue) color model during the years 1919 – 1923. Albers created a course in color theory that inspired the tutorial in this chapter.  (Sandbox Chapter 5) 

...The traditional, analog color wheel utilizes the RYB (red-yellow-blue) color model. In this color model, red, yellow, and blue are the primary hues (what we think of as colors), which can be mixed together to create any other color on the color wheel. ...

...We usually encounter digital media as a projection of light or as a print made with ink. Art may be projected on a screen or uploaded to an electronic device such as an iPod, or it may be printed on an inkjet or a four- color press. There are different color models for various display purposes.

...The CMYK (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black) color model is specific to the print industry. Artists and designers often create art for high-volume printing using the CMYK color model to synchronize the digital file with the four corresponding printing inks. Even though it is worked on with digital tools and examined via the projected light of a computer screen, this system is also subtractive, meaning overlapping inks create a darker hue.

...Television screens and computer monitors do not use ink or paint — they use red, green, and blue light. RGB is an additive color model. "