WEB AUTHORING. MAT 108

Alejandra Jarabo
Media Arts & Technologies Division.sbcc

GENERAL TERMINOLOGY FOR DIGITAL COLOR
     
You can see different terms that help define color, explain in the Color Picker window in Photoshop:

Color Spectrum

 

Color Hue

 

Color Value

 


the color spectrum can be meassured in different ways:

RGB

(red, green, blue)

 

CMYK

(cian, magenta,yellow, black)

 

HEXADECIMAL VALUE
for the web

(numeric value, six digits
defines the color across systems)

#98A7BB

Saturation

HEXADECIMAL VALUE
now

#FFOOOO

That is the number for a
fully saturated red

Contrast

between two colors

 

(they don't have to have the same hue,
as in this case)

Could be a light pink against a dark purple

HEXADECIMAL VALUE
now

#FF7F7F

That is the number for the brightest red with 50% saturation

Color picker with the
"only Web Colors" checker on

All the colors of the spectrum have been reduced to the
"Web safe" ones.

The colors are organized by hue

(move the spectrum-slider to see the web safe colors with that hue)

 
Web safe palette as seen in the
Swatches window by loading the
"web-hues" option