Week 3 - Colour

This week in digital media lecture we learned all about colour. Some of the key ideas where different systems, terminology, and ways to match colours together. We looked at several different examples of the use of colour both well and not so well.
When I begin to think of colour I immediately think back to elementary school art class and mixing paints. This was the basis for my knowledge on colour, which was the colour wheel and primary colours. However now I have learned the importance of colour and making the proper colour choices in all media I create.
We first learned the basic terminology that is used to describe the colours we use. First hue which is another word for colour, therefore a hue is the colour being described. Next is saturation which describes how bright or how pale the colour being described is. There are then two terms which describe the colour: tint and shade. Tint is used to describe when you add white to a colour and shade is when you add black to a colour.
The colour wheel which most people are familiar with was also demonstrated however I did learn new systems to match colours using the colour wheel. As most people learn as children colours across from each other on the colour wheel match well together. The new systems I learned where the triad, analogous and monocromatic. Each used to match colours well and create different looks.
These principles will greatly help anyone creating media that uses colour as they an easily find colours that math well. There was a really good website example shown in class that can e used in class to find the right colours and their respective hexadecimal number The site is: http://www.colorsontheweb.com/colorwizard.asp