From the course: Graphic Design Foundations: Color

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An overview of elements

An overview of elements

From the course: Graphic Design Foundations: Color

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An overview of elements

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- Controlling the elements doesn't mean you have the power to change the weather or manipulate psychic powers, but it does mean this: knowing the basic elements of color will help you control and design what's happening in the world of your image. But to explain the elements of a single color would be difficult without showing them in the context of other colors. So I'll explain the elements by using scales. The six elements of colors are value, saturation, neutral, temperature, texture, opacity. Value is the relative darkness or lightness of a color. If we look at a color in varying degrees of value, it's easier to understand the value of the color if we slowly take away the chroma, or vibrancy, of the color. Saturation, also known as vibrancy or chroma, is the colorfulness or the perceived intensity of a specific color. It can be very colorful, vibrant or lacking in vibrancy. If you remove the chroma of a color, you're neutralizing it. Neutral is the lack of chroma in a color. If a…

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