Understanding Color – Youtube video

~I only summarized what was mentioned in the video and do not own anything here~

~All images here are screenshots of the video~

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Saturation

  • Don’t overdo it – lots of bright saturated color looks incredibly fake and leave no time for the eye to rest, hence irritating when view for sometime.

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  • Guide viewers by using bright saturated color sparingly  a line of bright red along the back guide the direction of camels

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  • Use it to tell a story – animated flim used alot of bright saturated color for a sense of animation

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  • Affects mood – brightness and saturation  = happy, dull and desaturated = sadness

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  • Draws attention to something – highly saturated point is used for viewer to anchor

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Color Harmony

Monochromatic

  • only one colour
  • Best for single subject
  • atmospheric

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Analogous

  • easy on the eye
  • peaceful, comfortable mood
  • seen alot in nature

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Triadic

  • best for cartoon/ surreal
  • hard to pull off

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Complementary

  • very popular
  • naturally pleasing on eye
  • use one color predominantly – the weaker colour

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Split complementary

  • More creative freedom
  • Feels lively/ joyous

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Tetratic (Double Complementary)

  • best used for foreground/background – a set at foreground/ a set at background
  • hard to pull off
  • never 25% for each

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Author: Ong Zi Feng

Just doing things, making stuffs.

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