Colour is visual perception of different wavelengths of light, we see things in colour however if you turn the lights of everything is darker so the object is perceived as being darker even though it hasn't changed colour.
Primary colours - Red, Blue, Yellow.
Secondary colours - Purple, Orange, Green.
Tertiary colours - Red-orange, Yellow-orange, Yellow-green, etc.
Tint - A colour plus white
Shade - A colour plus black
Warm colours are reds, oranges and yellows.
Cool colours are blues, greens and violets.
Triadic colours - Colours that are equally spaced out on the colour wheel.
Complementary colours - Two colours that are opposite on the colour wheel.
Properties of colour
Hue - The name of a colour.
Value - The lightness or darkness of a colour
Intensity - The saturation of a colour, the brightness/dullness of a colour.
Here are some of my colour images.
In these image I tried to show complementary colours, orange and blue.
edited on photoshop.
As this image had no orange on I used photoshop to changed the white letters into orange letters.
This image also shows complementary colours as red and green are opposite on the colour wheel.
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