Friday, 19 November 2021

Everything You Ever Wanted to Know About Coloring but Were Afraid to Ask

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 It’s not that there is literally nothing you don’t know about coloring, it’s just that there isn’t a lot of information online. I just learned about color theory this week and have been trying to understand it since I started college. I am not going to share all of the color-related terms in this post, but if you are interested, I have plenty of resources for you to learn more about it.

The reason I mention coloring theory is because one of the things I learned this week was the use of color in a photograph. This is actually a very simple concept, but I found it fascinating. I have to admit it took me a few lessons to really understand it. The reason I was trying to talk about it was that I wanted to talk about the concept of “color is not just a subjective thing” and how important the subjectivity of color is.


There is an interesting and important point regarding the color theory that many photographers seem to forget,


which is that color is a representation of the third dimension of space. One of the main ideas of color theory is that the color blue is most often used to represent the “lightness” of the environment, and the color red is most often used to represent the “darkness” of the environment.


For many photographers, the color red is used to represent the darkness of the environment, and the color blue is used to represent the lightness of the environment. Even though we use different parts of our brains to process the two, they always work together to make a picture. That's a really important point because a picture is what we see, not what we imagine.


So when we see color on a piece of paper, we create a mental picture of what the colors in that color block represent. For example, if we see a rainbow, we think we see a rainbow. The real picture is more like a picture of a rainbow, an actual rainbow.


This is one of the main reasons why we use different colors on different objects.


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The brain uses different colors to represent different meanings and feelings. For example, when you see a picture of a rainbow, the brain automatically interprets that as a rainbow, whereas you have to imagine one. And once you have that image, you can use your imagination to color a piece of paper. It is almost like you are coloring a picture.


Colors seem to have a similar effect on us. When a person is feeling stressed, depressed, anxious, or angry, the brain automatically uses colors that remind us of those feelings or moods.


Colors seem to have a similar effect on us. When a person is feeling stressed, depressed, anxious, or angry, the brain automatically uses colors that remind us of those feelings or moods.

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