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Color is definitely quite fascinating, isn't it? What we're going to do in this
movie is just talk a little bit about color relationships. Now here we have
these two shapes and I have transparency in the background. We can see the sign
of transparency in Photoshop there. What happens if I turn on a white background?
Well, now that I've turned on a white background, I see these colors a little
bit differently. There isn't quite as much competition, right. There isn't
as much distraction. So perhaps they're a little bit more pronounced.
Well, then on the other hand, let's say, we create a black background. Now all
this and those colors feel more saturate. Now are they more saturated? Not at
all. Let's go back to that white background. Here they feel a little bit more
muted. But it's that intensity of the black surrounding them that makes the
brightness of these colors even more interesting. Well, let's take a look at a different comparison.
Let's say that I put a gradient background there and now this gradient
background is actually pretty close to these two different colors here.
We have this pink and this blue on each side. Now we lose a little bit of that definition
of the shape, also the color intensity. Well, what would happen if I were
to simply invert that background? All this and those colors feel more prominent.
The edges feel more defined. It's a very different experience we learned
from this, a little bit loss of the shape to this.
Now again, the colors feel more intense, especially this pink and this blue. It
all of a sudden just stands out so much more. So it's quite fascinating how
color is actually related to other colors. Well, let's say then that we turn on
a bunch of different colors and take a look at how this works.
So again here we have these different colors of varying degrees of saturation
on the black background. We want a white background, what does that look like?
A little bit different. Well, what if we use the old stained glass window
technique. We put a border around these images. Now in black that border isn't very prominent,
it's not that big of a deal. But let's say that we go ahead and then take that
black background off. So I'll go ahead and turn off that black background for
a moment and then take a look at this before and after with these outlines.
So here we have the colors with the outlines and now without the outlines. Now
all this and without those outlines, the colors feel subtly, yet significantly,
less saturated. So why is that in stained glass a lot of times they surround
colors with this edge or this border? Well, it makes those colors snap, it makes
them come out even a little bit further. Let's take a look at a different
example, what about a white border. Now again, white doesn't do that much, but
when we turn on that black background and we look at this before, here
we see our colors. And now after, each color is that much more defined or contained
in that particular space. So one of the things that I am trying to get
you to begin to think about is that what's fascinating regards to color is
color relationships and relationships to different colors or what's
surrounding a color, whether it's a background and its entirety or perhaps a border
or the colors that are surrounding one particular color.
Now the point here isn't to say well, you know what? There is one correct way
to think about color, there is correct color. No, rather, there are different
types of color relationships and those different relationships lead to
different results.