Color

I ordered Designer's Color Manual by Tom Fraser book back in February. It is a great read. I was interested in learning more about color and color manipulation with software, but it covers everything about color. I was totally fascinated by all the different color wheels that have been invented over time and why it so difficult to understand color. It is a real eye opener to understand how different print technologies print color too. The most usefully thing that I learned was how hard it is to think in color as RGB, the way most computers do. If 0, 255, 0 is green, isn't 0, 128, 0 half way between light green and dark green? Hue, saturation and lightness (HSL) is much easier to understand and work with for me. It makes sense and I can pick colors that go together much more easily, then convert to RGB. I'm sure I'll be going back to this book time and time again to learn more. Tags: color photography