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Understanding color space

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Understanding color space

- [Instructor] In a perfect world, all of our devices, our printers and our monitors and our screens and our phones, would all be able to display and print all of the colors that the human eye can see, but they can't. In fact, not only does each device display a subset of colors, the different devices display different subsets of colors, or to put it another way, if we think of a device as being able to represent a certain number of crayons, then different devices not only have different numbers of crayons, some might only have this many, while others have more, but they also have different colored crayons, so one might have just one blue, while another has five different blues. There are many reasons that different devices display colors differently. One of them is technology. So, take a screen, for example. It uses an additive color process to represent color, where adding equal parts of red, green, and blue actually…

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