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    Light gives objects their color when different wavelengths of light are absorbed or reflected. Color perception is influenced by factors like lighting, age, memory, and backgrounds. Color can be described in terms of hue (the actual color), chroma/saturation (the purity of the hue), and value/luminance (how light or dark it is). Adding white makes a hue lighter, adding black makes it darker, and adding grey produces a tone. Color systems refer to additive and subtractive methods of producing colors, with subtractive used for physical mediums like paint and additive used for digital colors.

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    Light gives objects their color when different wavelengths of light are absorbed or reflected. Color perception is influenced by factors like lighting, age, memory, and backgrounds. Color can be described in terms of hue (the actual color), chroma/saturation (the purity of the hue), and value/luminance (how light or dark it is). Adding white makes a hue lighter, adding black makes it darker, and adding grey produces a tone. Color systems refer to additive and subtractive methods of producing colors, with subtractive used for physical mediums like paint and additive used for digital colors.

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    Light gives objects their color when different wavelengths of light are absorbed or reflected. Color perception is influenced by factors like lighting, age, memory, and backgrounds. Color can be described in terms of hue (the actual color), chroma/saturation (the purity of the hue), and value/luminance (how light or dark it is). Adding white makes a hue lighter, adding black makes it darker, and adding grey produces a tone. Color systems refer to additive and subtractive methods of producing colors, with subtractive used for physical mediums like paint and additive used for digital colors.

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    Light gives objects their color when different wavelengths of light are absorbed or reflected. Color perception is influenced by factors like lighting, age, memory, and backgrounds. Color can be described in terms of hue (the actual color), chroma/saturation (the purity of the hue), and value/luminance (how light or dark it is). Adding white makes a hue lighter, adding black makes it darker, and adding grey produces a tone. Color systems refer to additive and subtractive methods of producing colors, with subtractive used for physical mediums like paint and additive used for digital colors.

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    COLOR THEORY

    WHAT IS COLOR ?

     How Light Gives Object Color?


    Color is light. Light is electromagnetic radiation and over a range
    of wavelengths it makes an impression on the human eye. This
    range of wavelengths is the visual spectrum.

    When light hits an object some wavelengths are absorbed and


    others are reflected. We see the reflected wavelengths of light as
    color. When all the wavelengths in the visual spectrum are
    absorbed we see black and when all are reflected we see white.
    When some are absorbed and some are reflected we see different
    colors of the spectrum.

     Factors In Perception

    Lighting: Light plays a HUGE role in color perception. It's


    actually the color of the light that determines the color your brain
    will perceive. Examine samples side-by-side when comparing
    colors, preferably under controlled lighting conditions.
    Age: As we get older, our perception of color starts to fade.
    Luckily, color perception is not just inborn, it's also a learned skill.
    Poor Color Memory: Human color memory is horrible! Even
    looking at two colors across the room from each other to see if they
    match is futile.
    Retinal Fatigue: Our eyes get tired very easily. When we stare at
    an object for longer than a few seconds, chemicals in our eyes start
    to deplete, and begin sending incorrect information to our brains.
    Backgrounds Effects: There is a phenomenon called simultaneous
    contrast in which the background on which we are evaluating color
    strongly affects our eye's ability to correctly perceive the color.

    DIMENSIONS OF COLOR
    Color can be described in three ways. By name, By purity, and by
    value or lightness. 

     Hue: When someone is talking about hue they are talking about


    the actual color of an object. Green is a hue as are red, yellow,
    blue, purple, etc.

     Chroma: Refers to the purity of a hue in relation to grey. When


    there is no shade of grey in a color that color has a high chroma.
    Adding shades of grey to a hue reduces it’s chroma.

     Saturation: is the degree of purity of a hue. It’s similar to chroma,


    though not quite the same thing. Pure hues are highly saturated.
    When grey is added the color becomes desaturated.

     Intensity: The brightness or dullness of a color. Adding white or


    black to a color lowers it’s intensity. An intense and highly
    saturated color has a high chroma.

     Value/Luminance: Is a measure of the amount of light reflected


    from a color and is basically how light or dark a hue is. Adding
    white to a hue makes it lighter and increases its value or
    luminance. Consequently adding black makes it darker and lowers
    the value or luminance.

     Shade: The result of adding black to a hue to produce a darker hue.


     Tint: The result of adding white to a hue to produce a lighter hue.
     Tone: In between black and white we have grey. A color tone is
    the result of adding grey to a hue. Shades and tints are tones at the
    extremes.

    COLOR SYSTEM
    Color systems refer to how we produce colors. When producing
    physical colors as in paint a subtractive system is used and when
    producing colors digitally as on a computer an additive system is used.

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