Color Theory is a "piece of cake"
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- Опубликовано: 11 июл 2024
- I believe the digital color selection tools we use tend to make color comparisons much more difficult to visualize. In this video, I'll attempt to explain how this 100+-year old color system (The Munsell system) can help you visualize color differences and balance that contrast in your own art.
This video is based on the same principles I discussed in my Caveman Color Theory series here: • Caveman Color Theory
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Dude i cant believe this is free!!
Thanks so much.
This is probably the most important and useful video among those you have published...!
I think this would make most sense as a sphere. with "white" and "black" being polar opposites. That way contrast can be more easily measured and compared among all value, hue, and saturation.
The "cake" explanation is VERY helpful! AWESOME! Thank you. 🖌🎨🏆💯🌟
Cake and colour theory! Two of my favourite things finally combined!
The first art video I am watching in my life and actually understanding
Thank u very much
This cake method to understanding the color wheel is blowing my mind. I could have been taught this in kindergarden
Someone else gets it! I need to do a better job of explaining this though. I'm working on a condensed version. :)
@@colorwithkurt Condensed versions are good but I like the pace and examples of this format. You make the understanding of concepts seem the only obvious answer when all is said and done
As a visual nerd the x y z axis actually snaps the whole thing in perspective. felt more like I was guesing and eyeballing before
Thanks! I've found that this either clicks with people hard or not at all! Glad you see it.
Fabulous video (a fully staturated word used in order to stand out against 'wishy washy' and' similar to others' video) Loved it, thank you.
Thanks! Will be watching this over and over again. Thanks for breaking it down!
This is excellent! I never comment - but Kurt, you got me!!
Woah. This is perfect! Every single artist needs to watch this. It's fantastic!
Thanks so much.
Great video!!! You are a very good teacher. This is a very difficult topic that you made easyer!!! Thankss a lott man!!!
Absolutely loved this video. Thank you
Thank you for creating this! I've long struggled to really understand color selections and contrasts, but this video helped a great deal in making it more easily digestible and understood.
I finally got to seeing this video, very clear and concise explanation, really narrowing it down
really really well done Kurt!
Thank you. Clear explanation and not difficult at all. You are a very good teacher (which is not the same as being a great colorist, as I think you are). Reminded me about art classes about Caravaggio paintings (I was born in Rome and lived there 25 years). Speaking about Caravaggio, any thought to do a video "explaining" one of his paintings? Ask because I will be curious to explore the role of lightning in perspective and the role of colors as to connections with feelings and Ideas. Plus all you just said. New to your channel, I found you in skillshare. Looking forward to learn more. Thank you again, great work!
A great way to understand Munsell. Thanks for a terrific video
I’ve been picking all of my colors in the ‘Value’ tab in Procreate, and that’s really helped me better understand these concepts . Sliders for brightness/hue/saturation, and just messing around specifically by each constituent color value makes more sense to me.
Thank you so much. Never imagined this!
Thank you. I'm glad to see others find value in this. :)
i loved this; need more, thanks
Excellent explanation. I have leveled up again, thanks.
I really like the in-depth explaintion and analysis, this is really really helpful and informative, Thank you so much!
Thanks!
Thank you so much! This is very helpful 🙌 you are a great teacher
bravo! very helpful, thank you. Good work!
This was super helpful! This simplified color theory in a an effective way. This is the first video that ever made it understandable for me so thank you!!!! These simplified videos are really helpful for beginners with little coloring experience :)
Thanks a lot, Bianca. Glad to here that. :)
Great explanation and examples.. best I've seen
I understand much better now, thank you. ☺️
Excellent presentation.
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I saw that! Thanks so much. :) Tell a friend if you like them.
@@colorwithkurt For sure!
This is a tremendous video. I learned a lot!
Thanks a lot. I appreciate that.
Amazing Kurt
Also, thanks for the "plan" lesson. In future, I'll definitely be pre-planning my individual images like that with an initial value thumbnail to avoid messing up the focus/contrast when juggling hues and saturations.
Awesome!
Brilliant that Kurt.Thank You.
Thank you for watch, Alan!
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I've streamed the last two Wednesdays. YT doesn't always send out notifications even with the "bell" all on. Sorry.
Bro, this video should be in the top list of every begginer...even in the list of every intermediate and advance artist. This video is a key and very well explained. Awesome work sensei!
That's amazing
Great explanation.
My only gripe would be that for a perfect visualization of the "distance" analogy, the cake should be (at least) as high as it is wide - that is, more than twice the height with which you show it. With a cake as flat as yours, hue distances will always be much longer than value distances, while in reality, the value distances will usually be perceived as more different/contrasting.
Sure. None of his is meant to be to any exact scale. It's easier to understand cutting a cake than a column... which this was at one point. :)
This was awesome. However, how do you set the color wheel to a square and not a triangle? Is the triangle is RGB and the square is CMYK?
I wish i could find this video earlier.. but with this *title* I would never be able to do so
What would you call it? I'm not opposed to changing it now.
What a cursed infographic!
🤯
Hello Kurt, love your stuff. Here with a bit of an off topic question though, sorry.
It's a question about "super blacking", or changing the color of the inks to a different rich black CMYK combination than the default black photoshop automatically makes them. Like 80 60 40 100 or 60 60 40 100. This is something that I've heard some other colorists talk about as something important but have never heard you mention. What are your thoughts on this?
Hey thanks. I was coloring professionally for years before I ever heard of Rich Black. No one ever said anything. I've now colored for almost everyone and still I've never had to address it in ten years of coloring. I don't worry about it.
@@colorwithkurt Thanks!
Hi Kurt, amazing video and great explanation. Ive got a few questions regarding color and constrast.
1. There's an RGB/CMYK and a primaries (Yellow, blue, red) colorwheel, which both create different sets of complementary colors. Which of those 2 types of complementary colors (e.g. red vs green or red vs cyan) has the most contrast?
2. When you talk about chroma contrast, is purple vs yellow the highest contrast out of all possibilities? Because the difference in value of the fully saturated colors is the largest for those?
3. When you look at the square with the value and saturation axis', is there a way to change saturation while keeping the same value? Because moving on only the saturation axis also changes the value.
Thanks.
1. I can't begin to think how to cross compare that and I don't think it matters to be honest. Red across from green is what I'd recommend. It's all relative to the canvas you are on though. None of this is that absolute or black and white--so to speak. :)
2. Maybe so technically, but again again again again... it's relative. Always. These questions are going to lead you into absolutes, and I promise that's not how it works.
But yes, it's cutting all the way across the cake and through much of the verticality of it as well, so that's up there on the high end of possible contrasts in the cake spectrum!
Think about this. What if the entire background was yellow and purple at max distance/contrast? You'd want to break that pattern with something else in the middle that's relatively lower contrast. And that "low contrast" area would become the "high contrast" area relative to the whole canvas. Does that make sense?
3. The MagicPicker add on has a mode for this in Photoshop, but that's all I know.
@@colorwithkurt Yeah, I think if the cross section of the pie looks like a munsell chart, you would get different lengths between fully saturated colors and thus different amounts of contrasts (perhaps alot more accurate). Thanks again for this video as it created a spark of curiosity and questions.
Awesome. Glad it did something! :)
Late reply from a color enthusiast:
1) There has been research about complementaries… what “opposite” hues that are the most contrasting ones. Since there are many color wheels available. Everything from Itten’s RYB we often (unfortunately) learn in school to CIE’s different scientifically based “wheels” and the color picker model. Some show psychophysical relations, some perceptual relations, and some just “look good”. One could believe that the best opposite hues are the ones that mixes to white (as light), are “after image” opposites, opposing opponent hues, or complimentary unique hues.
And if you want color models that has as opposites the “dominant wavelength” hues that, if mixed as light, mixes to white… then the CIE xyY or Luv diagrams are the ones to use. A RGB color wheel with gamma set to 1, the next best thing. If you want a color model where “after image” hues are opposites, I’m afraid there isn’t one. The NCS model has as opposites the four unique hues.
Now… what the research has found is: KURT IS CORRECT! Perceptually it doesn’t really matter. Opposite hues on any of the common color wheel is perceived as being quite similarly contrasty. The perception of what are more contrasting opposite hues also differ from individual to individual. And for different chroma or lightness, the hues that appear the most contrasting can also change.
Also note that RGB in RGB and the Y in CMY aren’t the hues we normally perceive as being the “true”/unique red, green, blue, and yellow.
2) With colors created by mixing RGB lights, looking at the triangular RGB gammut in a CIE uv diagram may provide you with this information. And it seems that fully saturated Yellow (actually greenish yellow) and Blue (rather purple blue) is the opposite hues most distant to each other. Actually the saturation of purple-blue being higher than the saturation of yellow. When mixing paint (or looking a the Munsell model) you likely have realized it’s the opposite regarding chroma: Y has higher chroma than P. But what makes the contrast appear quite large is the difference in lightness between full chroma Y and full chroma B/P. Regardless if it’s actual surface colors or display colors, intense yellow is brighter than intense purple (although for different reasons).
3) A bit more irritating is however the Value and Saturation dimensions on the often use HSV or the other closely related models derived from the RGB values. Especially the Value dimension (actually, more correct it is “blackness”). Because if you change saturation and/or hue, you also change lightness. And perceived lightness is the quality that causes contrast (not the same as Lightness in HSL… that isn’t perceived lightness either). Changing hue you also change the actually perceived saturation. And further, the quality chroma is more important than saturation when it comes to percieved change in ”intensity” of color.
The color app producers should have adopted a CIE model based on perceived Lightness and Saturation/Chroma as the standard color picker decades ago. Like CIE Lsh(uv) or Lch(ab). Munsell is a good model too. And hues are also perceptual i Munsell, and not “dominant wavelength”. With most other models, perceived hue actually changes a bit if you change value/lightness or saturation/chroma.
But the good thing (for learning) is however that you have to attempt to find the correct lightness and differences in chroma on your own, rather than just slide a scale. The traditional painter has to do those evaluations all the time when mixing paints.
Interesting things to add, that besides the qualities Hue, Lightness/Brightness and Colorfulness/Chroma/Saturation, there are other qualities of color that can be changed to create contrast. Color is a multidimensional cake. And a transformable cake too. Similarly there has been other recent findings when it comes to perceived differences/contrasts between color. Too much to go into here though, and with little value (pun intended) for the creators of these types of images.
I am just curious, are your inks set to a monochrome layer or just a normal layer in CSP?
Yep. Normal transparent layer.
The cake is a lie!
I know this reference!
I understand the concept but I didn't quite like the cake analogy, my good sir
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