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Color Systems
SUBTRACTIVE COLOR PROCESS
• The mixing of pigments and dyes so that all colors of light except the color are absorbed (subtracted).
ADDITIVE COLOR PROCESS
• The mixing of colored lights so that they shine on a surface, they combine (add) to make other colors.
SUBTRACTIVE COLOR PROCESS
• The mixing of pigments and dyes so that all colors of light except the color are absorbed (subtracted).
ADDITIVE COLOR PROCESS
• The mixing of colored lights so that they shine on a surface, they combine (add) to make other colors.
PRIMARY COLORS
• In a color system, the basic colors that cannot be broken down into other colors and that can be combined to create other colors.
Hue – the color wheel.
SECONDARY COLORS
• The product of mixing two primary colors.
TERTIARY COLORS
• The products of mixing a primary and secondary color.
Hue – the color wheel.
KEY
• Used synonymously with value. In a scale of values, high-key colors are lighter than colors in the middle of the scale; low-key colors are darker than the colors in the middle of the scale.
High key
Low key
TONE
• A color that has gray added to it.
TINT
• A color that has white added to it.
SHADE
• A color that has black added to it.
INTENSITY, SATURATION
• The strength or weakness of a color.