Basic Principle Of Colour.

These are some of the basic principles of the colours that we know of today and how you can describe each of them in there own way of looking at them.

Additive Colour.

There are three primary colours of lights, Red, Blue and Green. if you are to overlap to of these colours and project them onto a clear surface you would then have a complementary colour. We can then edit the amount of each of these colours to which we place into the mix and this will give us a varied colour every time, depending on the amount that you put into each mix. The main light source is where the colour originates, when the three added colours then mix into this that is the outcome and creates the cone cells in the eye to give it the appearance that its full range.

Subtractive Colour.

The visible light rays which can be reflected and mixed with the other paints, inks and dyes then show up to the natural eye and thus tell our brain what colour we are seeing, these are known as subtractive colour. The light source normally clear then you need to add the colorized inks or filters between the viewer and light source to change how we look at this and see what our minds tell us. Because our eyes cannot pick up perfectly about what the colour will turn out to be then we have to make a compromise about what it could be... this is then the imperfect thing to do and it makes us alot more different to what we are expecting. Thus not being the true colour.

Primary Colors.

These are the three base colours, Red, Blue and Green

Secondary Colours.

Secondary colours result from the mixing of two of the primary colours. Red (magenta) and yellow produce orange, yellow and blue (cyan) produce green while red and blue (cyan) produce violet.

  Tertiary Colours.

Tertiary colors are browns and grays, containing all three primary colors. They're created by mixing either all three primary colors or a primary and secondary color.

Hue.

This is what we usually mean when we ask "what color is that?" The property of color that we are actually asking about is "hue". For example, when we talk about colors that are red, yellow, green, and blue, we are talking about hue. Different hues are caused by different wavelengths of light. 

Saturation.

Related to chromatic value, saturation tells us how a color looks under certain lighting conditions. For instance, a room painted a solid color will appear different at night than in daylight. Over the course of the day, although the color is the same, the saturation changes.

Tints, Tones and Shades.

These terms are often used inappropriately but they describe fairly simple color concepts. The important thing to remember is how the color varies from its original hue. If white is added to a color, the lighter version is called a "tint".