From the course: Introduction to Graphic Design: Concepts
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Digital and print colors
From the course: Introduction to Graphic Design: Concepts
Digital and print colors
- [Instructor] A color model is a way of describing how colors can be reproduced, and the two we will look at here are the most common, RGB and CMYK. RGB is an energy-based model and where you'll come across that most obviously is actually right in front of you, right now, on your screen. RGB is said to be an additive model as increasing the energy of its three primary colors, red, green, and blue in various combinations gives us around 16 3/4 million colors. Let's take a look at that with these three sliders, "Star Trek" style, of course, but you'll have to make your own sounds. And the resulting colors will be shown in the diagram above which we'll now make completely black. At the moment, all the three circles are black as there is no light energy at all, but if we increase the red slider you can see how the top circle is becoming more red until we hit its maximum energy. Now we'll increase the green slider and you'll…
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