thecolorcollab - Hue, Value & Chroma. The Munsell System, Neutral Grays and Tinting & Glazing

#thecolorcollab with Sally Lynn MacDonald & Donna Downey. Zoom recording from our session on 04/01/2021, including Q&Art Modifying tube colors with Neutral Grays, Titanium (or Zinc) White and Regular Gel Medium to make color work for you.
‪@donnadowney‬ ‪@SallyLynnMacDonald‬

[@jamiekomodo1751]

Chroma is just the color's intensity. As an example using light, in the electromagnetic spectrum it's the amplitude of the color, while the hue is represented by it's frequency. of he wave. Value is independent of this.

[@airbrushpower]

I know this videos older, but anyone watching this might help. The easiest way a lot of people get their head around it is that Chroma is just Saturation. Doesn't adjust the value, purely the Saturation. If you create a colour swatch in PhotoShop and open up the Hue/Saturation Adjustment, you can drop the chroma of the HUE, but the square will still be there, it will just adjust the tone of the colour as you get more and more toward grey, until you hit grey. Some people mistakingly think Chroma is like transparency, but that would adjust the value as well, and the value doesn't change. Easiest way to think of it is Chroma is Saturation of a colour, and you will have that Chroma/saturation scale on all 9 value levels of the same HUE. Hope this helps. :)

[@MaryDuprie]

Thank you so much, time well spent!

[@diegorafaelsfo]

Thank you for the nuggets of wisdom.

[@chriscruzdesigns6700]

what an informative session. QBO one of my favorite colors to work with. Learned a lot today. Thanks Sally Lynn

[@SallyLynnMacDonald]

Glad you enjoyed it!

[@donnatlachacisinavirtualst4713]

Donna & Sally Lynn - Thank you for this great class! I can't wait to mix some colors in expanded ways! Time for this gal to pick up a few more tubes that will stretch a thousand ways! :)

[@SallyLynnMacDonald]

You are so welcome! Have fun!

[@judymckenzie3054]

Fabulous ... thankyou!!!

[@SallyLynnMacDonald]

You are so welcome!

[@cherylalikhani5957]

Thank you for the video.

[@SallyLynnMacDonald]

You're welcome!

[@cherylalikhani5957]

@@SallyLynnMacDonald I've seen this before but you are more fun to listen to, the other video was rather boring.

[@ArtbyJasonABell]

...if I may add, ....colors with a wide wave length are more chromatic at low values but get dull at high values ( reds, purples, and blues ) ...yellow has a short wave length but is high chroma at a high value range...as you darken a yellow or orange, it looses chroma drastically and turns brown ( burnt umber )......reds, purples, and blues are wide in terms of wave length with medium to high chroma possibilities and can remain chromatic even at low values...example alizarin crimson, dioxazine purple, and ultramarine blue...dont ask me how I know this lol

[@SallyLynnMacDonald]

Thank you for sharing! I love how we all have something fun to add to the geek side of pigments and color!! I think if I said 'wave length' in a video I would lose the entire audience. :) But it is all about light!

[@ArtbyJasonABell]

@@SallyLynnMacDonald lol yes indeed...you gotta be really nerdy to truly understand color theory

[@SallyLynnMacDonald]

N9 doesn't exist in a tube color. But you can mix 7:1 Titanium White and N8 Neutral Gray to create it. www.goldenpaints.com/technicalinfo/technicalinfo_neutgray

[@stephenfularz7573]

Where can I get copies of the munsell charts.

[@SallyLynnMacDonald]

www.goldenpaints.com/technicalinfo/technicalinfo_neutgray is this what you mean?