#bds 101

In the color lecture that we had on August 27th, I learned so much. I never really had any exposure to specific color theory. I never learned about hue, value or chroma nor about color unity strategies. I learned about the color wheel and how some colors are warm and some are cool in high school. In elementary school, I learned about primary and secondary colors, but not about tertiary colors. We did those cute little exercises where the student takes a little bit of one color paint and then mixes another paint color in with it to create a secondary color, so that pretty much solidified my knowledge of color in that sense.

    I think my favorite color theory is soften the chroma, weaken the contrast because this strategy creates pastels and lighter colors which are my favorite. I have an appreciation of strong chroma, but sometimes they can be overused and then they just stress out your eyes and brain.

    I was a little confused about the information thrown at me during the lecture, but I looked at the worksheet on Blackboard and use that to try and pick out some photos that would work for the specific theories and strategies. The color video was also really cute, although it did not add much to my understanding of color theory because I had previous knowledge of the points brought up in that video.

Because of my work on my high school’s student newspaper, I already knew that CYMK is the color profile for print and that RGB is the color profile for screens. What I did not know was that subtractive color mixing involved is when color in absorbed into a surface. When I think about color, I never think about the physics that go into color and light. The images that accompanied the definitions of hue, value, chroma, etc. helped quite a bit. They allowed me to visualize the color theory vocabulary in action and that expanded my knowledge which was a huge help.