Mastering the creation of a strong color palette is a critical skill for designers. A color palette that clashes or falls flat can lose users in seconds, even when the content of a site is excellent. Color has an impact on people’s perceptions. Some of those perceptions are universal, while [...]
Let's talk about the three systems of color most designers deal with, RGB, CMYK and spot. RGB Color RGB colors are used on screen. It stands for the Red, Green and Blue colors of light that create all the different hues that you see on your monitor. Each of these [...]
A color model in Image Processing is an abstract mathematical model describing the way colors can be represented as tuples of numbers, typically as three or four values or color components. When this model is associated with a precise description of how the components are to be interpreted (viewing conditions, [...]
Chroma subsampling is the process of encoding images by implementing less resolution for chroma information than for luma information. Human visual system is much more sensitive to variations in brightness (luminance or luma) than color (chrominance or chroma). A video system can be optimized by devoting more bandwidth to the [...]
CIE RGB Color Space CIE RGB color space is one of many RGB color spaces. It is based on the series of experiments conducted on human eye, to determine the colors in human vision. Eye reacts to the three primaries i.e. Red, Green and Blue separately. Colors we see are [...]
Introduction BT.709 is also known by the abbreviations Rec. 709. It standardizes the format of high-definition television, having 16:9 (widescreen) aspect ratio. YPbPr color model used in analog component video and its digital version YCbCr used in digital video.Y′ stands for the luma component (the brightness) and U and V [...]
Introduction YUV is a color encoding system used as part of a color image pipeline. It encodes a color image or video taking human perception into account, allowing reduced bandwidth for chrominance components. Y'UV model defines a color space in terms of one luma (Y') and two chrominance (UV) components. [...]
Wavelength Wavelength of light determines the nature of the light. We can describe light as electromagnetic waves with color identified by its wavelength. A single photon of one color differs from a photon of another color only by its energy. Visible light is the range of wavelengths within the electromagnetic [...]
Introduction For 8 bit color, [0, 255] range is referred as Full Range, and [16, 235] range is referred as Narrow Range (aka Limited Range, Low RGB, Broadcast). For YUV signals the Narrow Range is [16, 235 ] for Y, and [16, 240] for UV. In broadcast environment levels from [...]
XYZ Color Space This color model is based on three hypothetical primaries, XYZ. All visible colors can be represented by using only positive values of X, Y, and Z. The Y primary match closely to luminance, while X and Z primaries give color information. An RGB matrix color space is [...]