Below are questions on color you should be able to answer:
- 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 3 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?
- What is an ICC Profile?
- You buy a shirt and bring it home, only to discover when you try it on that its color looks different than it did in the store. Why is this?
- You are working with an art director and viewing a proof together. Will both of you see the same colors in the proof—why or why not?
- In the edit color section of Indesign, if I set the model to CMYK and make a new color composed of 100% cyan and 100% magenta, what color will I have created?
- If I make a color composed of 100% magenta and 100% yellow, what color will I have created?
- If I make a color composed of 100% cyan and 100% yellow, what color will I have created?
- How do these questions relate to color theory and why do you think these particular questions are important for color reproduction in our industry?
- If one has a photograph of a baby and takes a reading of the whites of her eyes in Photoshop (i.e, where there is no color tone), what will be the reading of that area in RGB? How about in CMYK?
- Are apples really red?
