Sunday, October 18, 2009

Tone, Saturation, Luminosity

 

The tone is ultimately what defines a color red, green, yellow.... actually is enabling us to differentiate them from other.If we define a color like red or green we are simply taking one of their qualities.
Saturation we can define as the purity or intensity of a color saturation, when we mix a pure color with other colors we would get that its intensity vary. To have a notion of the degree of saturation of a color we can give an example... the green saturated color of an Apple when the sun is up and the unsaturated green of the leaves from the forest at dusk.
Luminosity is the degree of clarity or darkness of a color. If add you a color white we increase its lightness, if we add black reducing.
Something that we must realize is that to correct a parent of a particular color we must add the complement and for that I show below the circle chromatic subtractive synthesis, if you choose the magenta its complement is green, with this circle we can see color to add to delete a parent.

circle color

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