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English is weird
Elysiana:
Yeah, I went back and reread what I'd written and realized it was all "THAT'S NOT RED".
Also, erm... how does one paint in RGB? R+G in light doesn't equal R+G in paint. I don't follow how that works!
pwhodges:
RGB is adding colours to the screen's natural blackness. CMY(K) is subtracting colours from the natural white illumination being reflected by the canvass.
Lines:
It's just what base colors you use. Most people start with a set of red, yellow, blue, black, and white. (Replacing green with yellow, but they still call it RGB for whatever reason.) CYMK in paint is just that - cyan, yellow, magenta, black, and also a white. You use those colors to mix your primaries instead of starting with them. It's not really the same as how RGB works, because you can't make yellow with green in paint, but enough designers would come into my old store referring it that way, that I just learned to understand what they meant.
This was mostly older designers, mind you, and they phrased things oddly. Such as calling a roll of tracing paper "bum wad".
Elysiana:
Oh, that seems odd to me to call it that; RGB almost always refers to screen/light anymore. Like you said, you can't get yellow using R, G, and B. RYB makes sense though, that's how I'm used to using paints (in the limited experience I have).
Hehehe. Bumwad.
Omega Entity:
--- Quote from: Elysiana on 17 Sep 2012, 19:30 ---I see a few hundred colors there, could probably tell you the rough CMYK for each (would be better in RGB but I work more in print than screen), and have words for... I dunno, I could probably come up with a word for 25-30 of them maybe? Maybe more? I mean it depends on if you can include stuff like "burnt orange" or "salmon pink" - descriptive, not separate words. Anymore, my "color names" are just CMYK values, really - that's the only way I think of them.
ETA: This is a fun test to determine how accurately you see color. I scored a 4 out of 100, meaning I basically had 4 out of order (switched two in two places). (another edit - that was last time I took it, a long time ago. I just did it again and got a 0/100) Of course it depends on how accurate your monitor is, but that's only for fine detail.
http://www.xrite.com/custom_page.aspx?PageID=77
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Perfect score. Yay!
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