Color

Visual color spectrum is seen in ROYGBIV, Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Blue, Indigo, and Violet. Primary colors (pigment) are red, yellow, and blue. Primary colors digitally generated are Red, Blue and Green.  Mixing primary colors creates secondary, and mixing secondarys and primaries create tertiaries. Dark colors recede and light colors come forward (not always trues when saturation is taken into account)

Color modes can be monochrome (one color and black and white), Greyscales (black white and grey), and RBG. Tints are when white is added to a pure hue, shade is when black is added to a pure hue and tones are when grey is added to a pure hue.

            Complementary colors are colors that are across from each other on the color wheel (orange and blue, yellow and purple, red and green). Split complementary is when you take a complements color and move one color to the left. Analogous are three nearby colors. Triad forms the same pattern as the three primaries. Quadrilateral takes two complements across from each other.

            Colors are heavily reliant on their relative colors. Different saturations of colors appear more saturated relative to their complement.

I put a lot of work into this. Worked mainly at home where I have more familiar tools. All hand drawn (as evident in the sub-par anatomy). Came out pretty nicely.

Understanding File Format

o   All files are packaged in different formats

o   Format is often determined by file origin

o   Graphic files can be reduced in file size with compression

Lossy vs. lossless

·      Lossy: Image data is “lost” or reduced for smaller size files but can cause poor image quality

·      Lossless: Retains image data for higher quality files

Graphic formats

·      TIF, JPG and GIF and the three most common file formats

·      PNG is a common web format; high quality and can save with transparency

·      Color format for files: TIF can be RGB or CMYK, JPG is only RGB, GIF has indexed color.

TIF

·      Tagged Image Format

·      Common format for printing

·      Is LOSSLESS so it retains image data

·      Results in larger file size, not fit for Internet use.

JPG

·      Joint Photographers Group

·      Made for digital photography

·      Lossy format

·      Can reduce image size by 10:1 without showing significant compression artifacts

·      Level of compression is adjustable

GIF

·      Graphics Interchange Format

·      Is best for graphics, especially ones with flat colors

·      Reduces image size by indexing color

·      Is adjustable by changing color levels

·      Contains no DPI, so it is bad for printing

Which format to use?

·      Best quality = TIF or PNG

·      Best file size  (photo)= JPG

·      Best file size (graphics) = TIF, GIF, PNG

·      Worst choice for photography = GIF

·      Worst choice for graphics = JPG

Pixel types

·      TIF and JPG are best for images with pixels that blend in color, called contiguous

·      Gif is best for images with flat tones, or non-contiguous

·      Aliased = non-contiguous

·      Anti-aliased = contiguous

For the images of the trees, I found two file formats to produce the highest quality. The first was the JPG-high setting, and the second was the PNG-24 setting. The differences between the two were small and barely noticeable. The JPG would be better for file size.

            For the bus, I found three files to work well. The GIF-64 with no dither, the JPG-high and the PNG-24 were all similarly crisp. The JPG would be best for saving a low file size. In general, it seems that JPG and PNG are the best for all around file types, where JPG is better bang for your size while PNG in all out quality with a greater size compromise.

            

For the Juxtaposition project I took the idea of conflicting elements quite literally and made burning ice. I spent the bulk of the time trying to make the images look cohesive, as I greatly dislike when images are obviously juxtaposed.  

Just removed the green screen from the cat and put him in a different background for select tool practice.

I chose to do one of the "Love Is Blue" guns from the game Bayonetta for this project

Pen tool shape practice

I went for an old looking car, and wanted to do an angle other than a side view. I created my own color scene and added some shading/lighting to match the background.

The first two projects done in Photoshop. Added some tasteful shading and alternate palates to make it pop.