My Statement.

I originally had it has "contact" but after looking at definitions, i think "communicate" would be better. Contact refers more to the act of physically touching someone. Whereas, i am referring more to the contact through communication. 

Communicate - Join or connect. Transmit thoughts or feelings. The exchange of thoughts, messages, or information, as by speach, signals, writing or behaviour. 

Thinking about my image..

Need to pick something out of my sketch book that refers to this statement and that i can use for the colour4print brief. 

I originally used 6 postcards, as i felt this summed up communicate in the simplest way. 

I really need to do a bit more development here, looking into communication and finding an image that will allow me room to experiment. 

Have been doing some studying! Trying to get my head around all this theory. 

Colour management is a process that governs how colour is translated from one piece of equipment in the printing process to another. Gamuts are RGB and CMYK. When a colour is outside of the cmyk gamut it may not be printed as the exact colour you see on screen as it is a best guess replacement. 

Each device used in the graphic design and printing industries produce a certain array of colours called a colour space. 

Its Nice to be Nice.

Have a bit of time to kill between sessions at college. Here are some images/designs that appealed to me =) 

Jason Munn.

Subtractive Colour VS. Additive Colour.

Subtractive - the more colours you layer on top of each other the less light is reflected - colours are subtracted so it becomes darker until you end up with black. 

Subtractive colours is what happens when you mix paint, print a picture, or highlight a word on a page.

Additive Colour - The exact reverse of Subtractive colour, the more colours you mix the lighter it becomes.

Additive colour occurs with televisions, computer monitors and all screen based images. 

Additive colours model involves light emitted directly from a source. 

Greyscale.

Greyscale images are distinct from black and white images. Black and white images have only two colours - black and white. Greyscale images have many shades of grey between them. 

Colour images are often built of several stacked colour channels. RGB images are composed of three independant channels for red, green and blue. Being every single channel also a single channel, they can be managed easily as independent greyscale images. 

CMYK

(cyan/magenta/yellow/key back)

Often referred to as process colour, or four colour.

It is a subtractive colour model, used in colour printing.

It works by partially or entirely masking certain colours on the typically white background.

It is called a subtractive model because inks subtract brightness from white.

Traditional printers often use Pantone spot colours when printing Work. Spot colours are mixed like paint and printed one at a time.

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CMYK is a subtractive colour model. used in
colour printing. Where two colours overlap,
only one additive primary is visible.
Blue is formed where cyan and magenta overlap.
Cyan and Yellow overlap to produce green.
Magenta and Yellow combine to form red.
Where all the subtractive colours overlap,
black is produced.

Because of the issue of converting from RGB to
CMYK for printing. It is important that designers
use swatches when designing if an exact colour
is important. Swatches provide the designer with
a printed example of what the colour will look like
on paper. The selected swatch can be entered into
photoshop with a code provided nezt to the swatch

The CMYK colour model is used in the printing process. RGB is produced
using light and nto on a printing page. This is where CMYK comes in.,
The four colour printing process used four printing plates. When the
colours are combined on paper, they form small dots, but the human
eye sees the full image.

When designing on screen you will mostly be
working in RGB, although your printed final
piece will be CMYK. As you can see in the
colour swatched to the left, there is a
slight shift between the RGB and CMYK colours.

Colour4Print

This module is going to be looking at the different colour Systems.

RGB - (red/green/blue - screen based.) 

A colour model using the additive primary colours red, green and blue. Video Systems use RGB data to create screen images. 

An additive model in which red, green and blue light are combined in various ways to produce other colours. 

Short for Red, green and blue; the primary colours used to stimulate natural colour on computer monitors and television sets. 

To form a colour with RGB. Three coloured light beams must be super imposed (reflection from a while screen) Each of the three beams is called a component of that colour.

The RGB model is additive in the sense that three light beams are added together.

So.. back to college.

Feels strange to be back at college again, straight back into the work. This module we will be looking at the colour system based on our summer sketch books.

My theme, from my summer work is "contact." Whilst i was keeping my sketch book of the summer, i recorded conversations, received letters and e-mails and kept a journal of these activities. It was quite a personal sketch book, and does not really have much meaning or make sense to anyone but me.
I am going to carry on with the sketch book even though summer is over as we are most likely going to have to do some more research anyway and i am finding it quite interesting anyway.

Look at this...



One of those adverts that you just think. Thats beautiful!

Green & Purple.

I decided on these two colours. They are opposites on the wheel and are therefore complimentary colours.  

September 08. Zakynthos.

End of Summer...

How quick did that go?

How beautiful! September 08. Kefalonia.