everything about color (literally)

Learn everything color in less than 25 minutes: what is color, color theory, color spaces, color gamuts, color photography, color manipulation, color psychology, display technologies and so much more.

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[juxtopposed]

what display are you watching this video on?

[MEGAMeetsmeh]

As a color nerd, this is probably the best color theory overview video I’ve seen. The only important thing you missed is CMY. Otherwise, I didn’t expect this to be so all encompassing and you did a great job at explaining the more technical concepts. W vid.

[aencaster]

As a printing technician, I only missed the CMY/CMYK/CRYK modes and subtractive models in general, because it really hurts seeing people trying to prove the Johannes Itten's colour wheel is a way to go in this modern day age.

Otherwise, it is THE video about colour, period. I will recommend it to new employees, to designers and people associated with my work field, you did a tremendous job 💪 wholeheartedly thank you ❤

[segsfault]

>Light is a wave
* _Wave/Particle Duality Has Entered The Chat_ *

[albertmends]

20:53 "color psychology needs context either there is a context or a context will be forced on a color" Such a great line!

[elk]

Omg. It actually covers everything about colour. In 25 minutes.

My uni course only went into the physics section and that took 2 hrs of lectures. Bravo, Jux!

[joemarriage]

I don't think I got the full experience watching this on my €90 monitor

[xephyrxero]

An important color spaces you left out is ACES. It's now the standard for high quality film editing. And it covers over 100% of the visible range!

[EvanH]

Casually drops the best video on colour ever created. So much work must have gone into this. I've seen so many different videos doing the same thing, but the visual metaphors and clever ways of visualizing abstract concepts in your motion design is unparalleled. Like the 3D colour space blew me away. This has got to be the best video you've made so far

[kalisticmodiani]

Subtractive primitives are magenta (a purpleish, pinkish, redish light color), yellow, and cyan (a greenish, blueish light color). Because cyan is what you get when you subtract the pure red from the white light. Also you cannot blend, superpose or juxtapose those three colors to get black so you have to use a fourth primitive which is "black" and whose function is to control/reproduce lightness.

[dbrighthd]

when I was younger I used to get sad that screens were only red green and blue like I wanted to see all colors

[xcuelho]

This might be the best condensed color material on the internet rn

[simonabunker]

This is a great introduction to colour theory and colour science! For movies there is an extra colour space the Accademy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (the place that hands out Oscars) created a set called ACES. This is a really wide gamma space that actually extends beyond the colour locus into colours that cannot be recreated (but help doing some maths).

[rubbish_kat]

justice for the true primary pigment colors; cyan magenta yellow

[bezrodnyigor]

Great video! Very comprehensive.

One thing that's not addressed here is the fact that in between your GPU and whatever display you use is an OS and depending on the setup it can screw up color accuracy in pretty spectacular ways, especially in HDR, especially on Windows.

[dapcuber]

I would love to hear you talk about how different cultures around the world see colours differently due to their language. For instance "When the Lithuanian-Norwegian participants were thinking in Lithuanian, they had an advantage in distinguishing different shades of blue, which was not present when they were thinking in Norwegian."
Edit: Also how different culture's colour perception influences things like music, for instance the 17 equal temperament which I remember reading about but I can't seem to find where.

[TalEdds]

Great in-depth video, loved every minute of it!

[SteveCopley]

Well, thats my next Graphics and Colour Theory lesson sorted for my Digital Tech. students! Thank you, as always, for such a great video. And thansk for RealTimeColours... Use it every week with my classes. ❤️

[mjrmls]

Obligatory mention that the subtractive primary colours are cyan yellow magenta, not blue yellow red 🤓

[lifthrasr]

9:55 This process is actually called the *opto-electronic transfer function* (OETF) or simply a transfer function, which includes but aren't limited to the gamma correction. In fact sRGB transfer function is subtly different from a pure gamma correction, though it shouldn't matter much for 8-bit color depth. Also many HDR standards also come with custom transfer functions because pure gamma correction won't be a good fit for the actual human perception of brightness---like, you will need 15 bits instead of 10 bits of color depth for the faithful color reproduction.