Bring to class ideas for a banner for your eportfolio site home page. You will be getting your bios back for revision. Once your bio is corrected, you will upload it to the “About Me” page on your site.
Find an example of a design in promotional or editorial materials that you think uses color to communicate effectively, and bring these images to class next week on a flash drive or have them accessible on Google drive or drop box, etc. Be prepared to analyze the design’s use of color using some of the terms used in your readings and that we have discussed in class (or will discuss in class next week). Is it using RGB or CMYK color or both? Warm or cool colors, etc.? Bring to class next week.
Below are questions you should be able to answer after our class discussions on color and the assigned readings.
What are the subtractive primaries and be able to explain why they are called subtractive ?
What are the additive primaries and be able to explain why they are called the additive primaries?
What does the term metamerism mean?
What color space is larger, RGB or CMYK?
What are three elements of color?
What does the term gamut mean?
What color would we see without light?
What are warm colors? What are cool colors?
What color space is used on the web?
How does the surrounding color affect perception of another color?
Do we all see the same color when we look at an object?
How does paper play a role in color reproduction in printing?
Are there some colors that can’t be reproduced on the web? in print?
What is a PMS color?
What is calibration?
What is a colorimeter and what is a spectrophotometer?
