WEB AUTHORING. MAT 108 | Alejandra Jarabo |
GENERAL TERMINOLOGY FOR DIGITAL COLOR |
You can see different terms that help define color, explain in the Color Picker window in Photoshop: |
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Color Spectrum
Color Hue
Color Value
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the color spectrum can be meassured in different ways: RGB (red, green, blue)
CMYK (cian, magenta,yellow, black)
HEXADECIMAL VALUE (numeric value, six digits #98A7BB |
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Saturation |
HEXADECIMAL VALUE #FFOOOO That is the number for a |
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Contrast between two colors
(they don't have to have the same hue, Could be a light pink against a dark purple |
HEXADECIMAL VALUE #FF7F7F That is the number for the brightest red with 50% saturation |
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Color picker with the All the colors of the spectrum have been reduced to the The colors are organized by hue (move the spectrum-slider to see the web safe colors with that hue) |
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Web safe palette as seen in the Swatches window by loading the "web-hues" option |