Understand Color on a Whole New Level!

[@jucolin]

I´m a big fan of yours Deke, I´m following you since Lynda pages and tutorials and thanks to you I could master some programs. !Greetings from Mexico!

[@dekeNow]

That's great news! Y gracias!

[@KingZero69]

another great and informative video with excellent visualizations 💪

[@dekeNow]

Excellent news!

[@juurstudio]

Never knew to think of HSB as a cone and that decreasing Brightness decreases the amount of available hues. Thanks!

[@dekeNow]

You bet!

[@LacerdaJPF]

Thank you Deke. As always great info.

[@dekeNow]

Nice-thank you!

[@DavidMFranks]

Deke - this is fascinating stuff. And explained so well that even a doofus like me can grok it. As ever, you are a master at explaining all things graphical.

[@dekeNow]

Thank you!

[@mrrcassidy]

I've been dipping in and out of Photoshop since we got 'multiple undos' (was that Photoshop 3?) - I've never stopped to appreciate what HSB was or what the values meant. So useful for quickly identifying absolute complimentary colours. Thank you!

[@JohnBerthoty]

That was a great explanation! All good... until I think about the visible portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. Magenta doesn't "loop back around" to red. Its a linier progression. How does that work? Help!

[@dekeNow]

Great question! That CIE 1931 Chromaticity diagram (that I feature at 29:15) maps the spectral colors (analogous to hues) in a counter-clockwise horseshoe. Along the bottom is a straight edge called “the line of purples.” The latter is actually a mix of violet and red wavelengths (so non-spectral) that form pretty much the entire stretch of what we call magentas, thereby creating the visual effect of color as a seamless continuum. Isaac Newton was the first to render color as a circle/wheel in an attempt to suggest colors repeat in octaves, as in music.

[@JohnBerthoty]

Wow, ok thank you. Between you and Copilot, I ALMOST get it now! 🙂@@dekeNow

[@DavidMFranks]

@dekeNow Wow. Just wow. I never knew that about Newton. I shall now forego PMS labels altogether and just say Red minor 7th..... 🤣🤣

[@dekeNow]

😁Glad to share!@@DavidMFranks