Defining color types.
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Printed Date: 13 September 2025 at 4:38pm
Topic: Defining color types.
Posted By: Pixel_Outlaw
Subject: Defining color types.
Date Posted: 31 January 2007 at 10:47pm
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I was just wondering how you would create real world colors.
Like 80's "hot" or neon colors (high saturation and value/light)
Pastels ( low saturation perhaps w? high light/value ?)
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Posted By: Anlina S.
Date Posted: 08 February 2007 at 10:38pm
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Your colours are going to appear differently depending on what is around them. If you want part of your piece to appear neon, then make your neon a highly saturated colour and use lower saturation colours in the rest of your piece. Pastels use a high lightness in your colours, perhaps a lower saturation, depending on your overall piece. Try working on your piece on a grey background instead of white - the backlit white makes everything but the most saturated colours appear dull by comparison, but you never see that kind of white on normal objects in real life, just powerfully lit stuff, like electric lights or the sun shining directly onto puffy clouds. |
Posted By: jalonso
Date Posted: 09 February 2007 at 4:24am
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I'm disappointed in you. You mean you don't have a mathematical algorithm or some other uber p_o way to determine rl colors :/
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Posted By: Ensellitis
Date Posted: 09 February 2007 at 4:33am
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photo with color + photoshop + eyedropper (w/ 3x3 sample setting)= pretty damn close
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Posted By: Larwick
Date Posted: 09 February 2007 at 6:00am
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If you want neon colours, try not to go too light (for the midcolour), as they will look pale. Bzzt.
Also, mess with the hues. Like, if you want a lighter neon green, just make it more yellow, or whatever. I'm probably talking a load of balls cus i've never actually tried it though. Lol. -------------  http://larw-ck.deviantart.com">
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