The Value and Color study L1 - introduction of value and color study

Some note about value and color.

The reason makes this is lesson is want to help people have a basic idea to understand using value study in their work, and hope the scene can get improved.

Let talk those three things first:

Hue, Value, Saturation(chroma)

Hue: like name of the color

Value: how light or dark

Saturation: brilliance and intensity of a color

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L:same hue different value
R:same value different saturation


This HSV Model perfectly represent those three items.

On the top showing the Hue which is a ring full of a different color.

0~360 degree represents a different color.

The vertical represents value

The horizontal represents saturation

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L: top view, R: perspective view

The color palette in the photoshop is the same idea as the HSV model

Tone:

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L to R= high key to low key
U to D= high contrast to low contrast

Why value is important?

Make the audience more easy to read the image

Give the depth in the image

The Missing link sense

When to use it?

At the beginning of the scenes planning to make sure if the image read.

Finding the bid shape and testing in the thumbnail first.


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