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Design Elements, Color Fundamentals
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Design Elements, Color Fundamentals

by Aaris Sherin
January 2012
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
160 pages
4h 52m
English
Rockport Publishers
Content preview from Design Elements, Color Fundamentals
Chapter 1 // Communicating with Color //15
Value and intensity can be broken
down into seven visible steps. These are
the maximum variations that will be dis-
cernable to the human eye.
Altering the value and intensity of hues
used within a composition is one of the
ways that a designer can achieve visual
harmony within a composition. Since a
viewer’s perception of color is always rela-
tive, one can make colors “seem” brighter
by putting them next to duller tones.
WChanging the value of some ele-
ments in a design is an excellent way
to make certain parts of a composition
stand out. These two value studies are
an example of how different the same ...
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ISBN: 9781592537198