Week 5 Colour Theory

This week we are learning about colour theory, and how to use RGB and CMYK properly.

A) Having watched the video with Nigel French – describe, in your own words, what each of these colour systems means: RGB and CMYK.

Lets start with the RGB colour system! RGB contains the colours red, green and blue. This is the colour system you use for digital work, laso the colours you see on your screen wheter it would be a monitor, TV or phone its in RGB.

CMYK colour system consists of cyan, magenta, yellow and black. Now this is the colour system you would use for a physicall print like a magasine, posters etc. If you’re working digitally on something that will be a print, you can preiview the CMYK colours in photoshop to show what it would look like.

B) Make use of Adobe Colour and develop four different colour schemes. Please hand in screenshots of your schemes:

Monochromatic: Colours that are shades or tints variations of the same Hue(colour).

Complimentary: Usually found on the opposite sides of eachother on the colour wheel.

Triadic: Three hues (colours) equally positioned on a colour wheel.

Analogous: These are colours located next to eachother on the colour wheel.