Archive for February, 2010
Tonal Range
The histogram is a bar graph that shows the range of brightness that make up an image. The histogram tool is a very useful tool in Photoshop because it make editing images much easier by allowing it to become harder to allow other adjustments to get out of control and harming your the image your working on instead helping it.
The hue/saturation tool can be very helpful when editing images because this tool allows you to be able determine how vibrate the colors appear in your image that you are working on.
Photoshop
When scanning images it is better to use the high quality setting for scanning the image in, it will take longer to scan the image in but in the end it will result with a better overall image.
The difference between resizing an image and resampling one involves whether or not the number of pixels is affected. Resizing an image only changes the sixe the image will pring without changing the number of pixels the image has, while resampling the image actually changes the number of pixels within the image itself.
Color
The color wheel is a way of displaying the colors by hue and color sections such as primary and secondary.
Some of the most common color palettes include monochromatic, complementary, warm vs. Cool, Triadic, and Tetradic.
Color contrast in web design makes pages more user friendly because if you use all very similar colors throughout the whole site it will make it harder to read text or make important information stand out from the information that is not quite so important.
Color contrast has a lot of importance in design because not only does it make things stand out against the background it also creates dimension.
Color can definately set the mood of a site. When designing a website you want to look at what mood you want to create for your target audience, such as if you were creating a site that would mainly be for a younger audience you would want to use much brighter colors, mainly the primary ones.
