Introduction
Welcome
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Traditional media to digital: The long and winding road of color
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Exercise files
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1. How Color Shapes Meaning
Introduction: How color shapes meaning
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Universal, cultural, and personal symbols of color
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Concepts made clear
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Brand identity and language
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Sequence and pattern
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2. The Color Wheel
What is the color wheel?
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Primary colors, primary concerns
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Playing with complementary colors
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Tertiary colors: The basics of brown and gray
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3. The Elements of Color
An overview of elements
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Value is not a moral judgment
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Saturation to neutralization
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Temperature: How hot is hot?
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Textures, marks, dashes, and dots
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Seeing through color: Opaque, translucent, and transparent
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4. Contrast
What is contrast?
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Creating focus: Living on the edge
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Creating the readable image
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Connecting contrast with content
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5. Color and Light
Illuminating light
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The effect of contrast in light
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Value and saturation
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On temperature
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On complements
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Secondary and reflected light
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RGB vs. CMYK
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6. Palettes
An introduction to palettes
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Limited palettes: A harmonious color palette
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Harmony and discord
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Unifying color grounds
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Unifying glazes and layers
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Charting a color family
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7. Color Shape, Texture, and Context
Balance of shapes: How much is too much?
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Weaving textural color
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Color in context
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Color blindness
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Challenge: Deconstructing color
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Solution: Demo of deconstructing color
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Ex_Files_Foundations_Color.zip
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