Color Theory

[v-six]

Ok, I did a quickie on composition, so I figured a quick color study would be good. This will include a quick assignment for any that wish to participate. I won't be explaining how the color wheel works... if you need a refresher, look it up. You won't have problems finding references.

A few color definitions:

Primary Colors: Red, Yellow, and Blue. You knew that. These are the colors that the light on your screen is built from.

Secondary Colors: Orange, Green, Purple. These are created by mixing two primary colors.

Tertiary Colors: Colors made by combining a primary and seconday color.

Analagous Colors: Colors that are adjacent on the color wheel. (e.g. red and red-orange

Complementary Colors: Colors that are directly opposite on the color wheel.

The assignment:
Part 1: Make a document built from two complementary colors (two colors only!). You can cheat and use one one analagous color.. this is if you choose green and red, you could choose a green with a hint of yellow in it. You should use solid color, no filters that would overshadow the color. The sole purpose of this part is to make the layout vibrate as much as possible.

Part 2: Same as part 1, except it should be smooth and vibrate as little as possible (the hard part). For this, you may slightly alter the hue of one of the colors, and raise and/or lower the saturation of both colors.

Part 3: (Extra credit): Using only solid color, set up a document where two instances of the same color appear to be different.

Here's mine:


ouch






alittle smoother...






If you feel like you're in boot camp from all of the little pointless exercises, you are! Shape up soldier!
P.S. try to separate your images atleast by a couple lines. The colors will interfere with each other.

[Chevy]

Ought to be interesting ... Did I mention I am partially color-blind?

[v-six]

should be even more interesting for you then!

[Spatcher]

Note, these are bad and I didn't have time to do the extra credit because I did them in the school library this morning using M$ Paint. ANd I did them in about 10 minutes because I didn't want to get in troule (viewing forums and uploading images)

Note also, my friend influenced my idea for the first pic



Second pic (some kinda dark green and some kinda dark red)

[v-six]

Good Henry, first one done. For part one, youll get better vibrations if you make your yellow closer to orange, or blue closer to purple.

[Spatcher]

I'll do the extra credit tomorrow in the library

[ebackhus]

the first one REALLY hurts...

[v-six]

Those were almost exactly my school's colors at New Paltz. But that's what you get with public education. Plus one of the school fonts is Gill Sans.. And Eric Gill did some not so clean stuff in his life. Ironically, arguably the most important American type designer, Frederic Goudy lived in Marlboro, about a half hour away from New Paltz. Why didn't they use one of his fonts? It would have been to smart a move

[Spatcher]

Originally Posted by ebackhus

the first one REALLY hurts...

It wasn't my idea, my friend told me to do it since I had a square and a circle.

[devil lady]

Here are my 3. One question, how do you get them to save clearly as mine dont look as good as when I first designed them?

[v-six]

What program are you using? Your jpg's are very lossy, do you have the option to save as gif's?

[devil lady]

Paint shop pro and they only save in 256 colours. I've looked round but cant see where to make them save higher.

[v-six]

Originally Posted by devil lady

Paint shop pro and they only save in 256 colours. I've looked round but cant see where to make them save higher.

256 colors is more than enough. That's not where you're losing quality. I don't have experience with the particular program though, anyone else?

[Spatcher]

I save it as a .png

[devil lady]

Found where I mucked up.

[E-Liam]

I'll be there with mine tomorrow sometime. Been busy the last couple of days.

Cheers

Liam

[Spatcher]

Here's my extry credit




( that second one is brighter right?)