C O L O R: Hue Knew?

1. COLOR: Hue Knew?

2. What is Color?

3. What is color? • A color is an image that has characteristics of things that results from the light they give off or spread or reflect. For example, a white color is made up of many different wavelengths of light.

4. What is color? • An appearance that is deliberately misleading • When a person who seems one way but acts another, people say their true colors are shining through.

5. What is color? • The timbre of a musical sound; • The sound of a trumpet is different to a harp.

6. What is color? • Interest and variety and intensity; • "the Puritan Period was lacking in color“ • Something is dull and uninteresting lacks color

7. What is color? • A race with skin pigmentation different from the white race (especially Blacks)

8. What is color? • Things that happen to us color our judgment about other things. • "My personal feelings color my judgment in this case"; • "The sadness tinged his life“

9. What is color? • Modify or bias; "His political ideas color his lectures“ • If you are from Mountain Brook you might not want higher taxes that you already are paying. • If you are a Democrat your views color your comments about Romney.

10. How do we see color?

11. How do we see color? Our eyes have rods and cones Rods help us see black and shades of gray Cones help us see colors

12. How do we see color? • Color is interpreted by the brain. • The color the brain interprets depends upon the signals sent by the cone cells. • If the cones are diseased they lose their sensitivity to the lower-intensity wavelengths and are unable to send proper signals. • Blue, green, and red (called spectral colors) are the easiest to see.

13. How do we see color? Color is interpreted by the brain. Cones that send color signals to the brain can be weakened permanently by disease, or they can be temporarily disabled (even in normal eyes) by overexposure to light. When this happens, the brain will see only black and shades of grey.

14. How do we see color? • Colors of things are dependent on the color of the light that is around us. • White light Red light

15. Color has Structure

16. Hue • Hue is another word for color • Hue is one of the 12 colors on the color wheel

17. Primary Colors • Any color that cannot be made from combining other colors • Every color is made from a combination of these colors: Red, Yellow, Blue

18. Secondary Colors • Colors made from combining 2 primary colors • Red and yellow= orange • Red and blue= purple or violet • Blue and yellow= green

19. Tertiary Colors • Colors made from a primary and a secondary color • Orange and yellow= orange yellow • Yellow and orange= yellow orange • Blue and green = turquoise • Purple and blue= blue violet ETC

20. Tints • Tints of a color are produced by mixing different amounts of white with a color

21. Shade • Shades of a color are produced by adding different amounts of black to a color.

22. Tone • The tone of a color is produced by adding black and white to a color. It “tones” down the color and makes it not so bright.

23. Monochromatic Colors • Mono means one • Monochromatic colors are tints and shades of one color

24. Analogous Colors • Analogous means similar or related • Analogous colors are 3-5 colors that are next to each other on the color wheel

25. Complementary Colors • Complementary means opposite • Complementary colors are colors that are directly across from each other on the color wheel

26. Warm Colors • Warm colors are the colors of fire. • Reds, Yellows, and Oranges

27. Cool Colors • Cool colors are the colors of icy lake • Cool colors are blues, greens and purple