All About The Advanced Color Theory

By Patty Goff


If one is in the field of arts, then one of the most important lessons that he will be learning would be the color theory. This is extremely important because it would teach the student how to mix colors until he is able to get the end result that he would want. If one is already an experienced artist, he will be learning the advanced color theory.

Now for those who do not know, the basic theory is revolved around the color wheel that is created by Sir Isaac Newton. This wheel shows how the primary colors would mix in order to form secondary colors. The primary colors are blue, yellow, and red and if they are mixed together, they form the other colors of the spectrum.

Now after learning the basics, one will be moving on to the advanced lessons where he will encounter a little bit more computations. Now basically he will be learning about shades, brightness, and other things. However, the most basic things that he will at least learn would be the hue, chromaticity or chroma, saturation level, the value, and luminance.

Now the very first concept that one will learn about would be the hue. Now in a nutshell, the hue is the measurement on how much one primary color differs from the other two. This would actually be measured on how much light the primary colors give off and how strong they are.

Now the second concept on the list would be chromaticity or just simply chroma. The chroma would be measuring how colorful a pigment actually is by measuring the hue first. If one would find out that a certain shade has maximum hue, then it will have low chroma but if it has minimum hue, then it will have a high chroma.

The next concept that one will be learning about would be saturation or simply put, intensity. Now the intensity means actually the level of the strength of brightness of a color which would also measure how much impact it has on the eyes. Now colors that are known to have high saturation are any colors that would revolve around yellow and red.

After that, one will then be taught about value. Now the value actually measures brightness as a whole. If one pigment is bright, then it possesses a high value level as compared to one that is dark.

The very last concept that one will be learning would of course be luminance. Now measuring luminance is actually quite similar to measuring value or saturation but it is much more mathematical in nature as there is an actual formula on how to measure this. It is measured in intensity per unit of where it came from and it could be solved by getting the average of a collection of colors.

So basically, those are some of the things that one will be learning if he will be taking up advanced lessons. The basics would concentrate more on primary colors and how to mix them. The higher lessons will concentrate on the details and actual measurements of color.




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