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Originally Posted by John Reidy
You cannot represent a color accurately (or to more correct, to represent what you wish the viewer to see) without hitting its value and chroma. After all, if you miss on the chroma you miss the overall effect of 3 dimensions.
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John, I'm confused as to whether you are confused (
how about that for a sentence?) but I just wanted to point out that there are three elements of color that (in my opinion) are frequently mistakenly condensed into two elements:
1. Hue
2. Value
3. Chroma (also called 'Intensity' or 'Saturation')
Personally, it helps me to think of color as a three-note music chord; you need to think of all three aspects to the color you are putting down.
Gamblin has an interesting discussion on this subject at
this link . There's a dvd that you can order through the site that shows a 3-D model of the "color space" idea. I think it was free at one of the Portrait Society of America conventions and that's how I have it.
This is a wonderful thread and thank you all who have contributed to it, I'm enjoying it very much.