Color Theory Class Assignments |
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Handouts: | Color Theory Syllabus - DOC File |
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Instructor E-mail | JTomeTeacher@aol.com | |
Required Text: |
Color Theory Made Easy: A New Approach to Color Theory and How to Apply It to Mixing Paints (Paperback) |
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Required Materials: | Blick Art Materials - 650 Ave of Americas, Store 1, New York, NY 10002 (212) 524-9611. Pencil, ruler, kneaded or plastic eraser, any used CD to use for tracing, 3 - 11"x14" Primed Canvas Boards, Acrylic nylon brushes (not natural hair), plastic pallet or pallet paper, pallet knife, |
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Color wheel Links: | http://www.realcolorwheel.com/rcwchart.htm http://www.realcolorwheel.com/colorwheel.htm |
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Light Dispersion by a prism. |
Isaac Newton's famous experiments w/ a prism. (In class experiment) |
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Color wheel has both Additive and Subtractive Colors. Color Wheel (photoshop file) |
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Additive Colors (Light & Computer/TV screens) |
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Subtractive Colors (Paint and printer ink, CMYK) |
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We will be painting in class in Acrylic paint on Canvas Boards as described earlier in class. |
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Photoshop's Out of Gamut (or color range). This is why you get color shifting in print. |
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Paper stock can also give you color shifting. Matte vs Glossy finish. |
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Hue, Value and Saturation. In Photoshop: Adjustment layer |
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Photoshop's Channel Mixer (destructive editing) |
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(requires Adobe LightRoom, Apple's Aperture or a Photoshop plugin) |
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High Dynamic Range Images (HDR) - (Non destructive editing) The HDR technique blends three or more photographs taken at different exposures or using different filters together to produce a single photograph or image that blurs the lines of reality by then tone mapping the images. |
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