Last discussion we tackled the color wheel and the meaning of colors.
I was never aware that colors have so much importance when it comes to design. It is just one of the components that make a design complicated. It gives more substance to the design. Colors have meanings too i.e. Blue may mean peace, cleanliness, formal, cold, free, and educated; Orange may mean food, and; Black may mean death.
Using a color wheel is also vital in creating one's design. Color wheel is a chart that displays different hues. In it there are the primary colors (blue, red, yellow), and secondary (orange, green, violet). You can determine the perfect colors to use either by basing it on which is it's compliment, these are called Complementary colors, these are colors that are opposites at the color wheel. Another basis is the split complementary, which, rather than using the opposite colors, you use the colors that are beside the complement (hence, creating a "split", get it?). And the last one is the analogous colors which are colors that are beside each other.
We also tackled the gamut or the range of colors. There's LAB, which is the colors that are visible to our eyes; Adobe RGB, color that machines can detect; sRGB, web colors, and; CMYK, which are colors used for printing. CMYK gets the smallest portion in the gamut. This causes a discrepancy or problem in printing, because we create the design in Adobe RGB, which has more colors in it or a wider range, thus creating a mismatch.
LAB>Adobe RGB>sRGB>CMYK
PART TWO
We also had a brief discussion about Photoshop concerning its settings and the importance of these settings.
It is very important for us to have the same settings because designs are created for different purposes, such as web, print, et cetera. Knowing the settings will seperate us from regular, basic Photoshop users.
IN SUMMATION
It is the littlest things that could make a design stand out from the others. Who knew that colors and some basic (not quite basic actually) settings and could have such an impact in a design? Sometimes that things we ignore are actually the things that completes and impacts our design . . . . parang pag-ibig.
signing out........
