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Topic Options #187365 - 10/18/09 10:33 PM Calling all artist types Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 10392 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky A friend wrote me, using the phrase "desaturating the color". I think I get what it means, but would be interested in hearing from all you folks who know about the use of color. Thanks. Top #187368 - 10/19/09 02:48 AM Re: Calling all artist types [Re: Jackie] Zed Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/27/02 Posts: 2064 Loc: British Columbia, Canada Making the colors less intense. Think about a photo that is over exposed; the colors are desaturated - paler and with less contrast. Top #187370 - 10/19/09 05:49 AM Re: Calling all artist types [Re: Jackie] BranShea Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/06 Posts: 3762 Loc: Netherlands, the Hague This is saturated color if ever you want some. But you have to be like this woman, sit in front of the painting and experience the measure and motion of saturated color. link When in watercolors colors have run out of hand and have become oversaturated, holding the image under the tab desaturates it. Top #187373 - 10/19/09 06:04 AM Re: Calling all artist types [Re: BranShea] zmjezhd Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/13/05 Posts: 2473 Loc: R'lyeh his is saturated color if ever you want some. How different it looks in your snapshot. Jackie, for more reading on HSL and HSV, the S in which words stands for saturation. Top #187378 - 10/19/09 03:03 PM Re: Calling all artist types [Re: zmjezhd] BranShea Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/06 Posts: 3762 Loc: Netherlands, the Hague Yes, seize and matter really matter. Thanks for this article. Top #187379 - 10/19/09 03:56 PM Re: professors Heidegger & Derrida walk into an X-Bar [Re: BranShea] zmjezhd Pooh-Bah Registered: 08/13/05 Posts: 2473 Loc: R'lyeh You're welcome. This is yet another photograph in which I am just out of frame (off-camera, offstage, hinter den Kulissen, or parergon). Top #187380 - 10/19/09 06:06 PM Re: Calling all artist types [Re: zmjezhd] BranShea Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/06 Posts: 3762 Loc: Netherlands, the Hague Originally Posted By: zmjezhd his is saturated color if ever you want some. How different it looks in your snapshot. Jackie, for more reading on HSL and HSV, the S in which words stands for saturation. If it had been my snapshot you would have had a chance to shine in bright colors. Top #187383 - 10/19/09 10:34 PM Re: Calling all artist types [Re: zmjezhd] Jackie Carpal Tunnel Registered: 03/15/00 Posts: 10392 Loc: Louisville, Kentucky HSL stands for hue, saturation and lightness, while HSV stands for hue, saturation and value. Wow. When I get hints like this about how much there is that I don't know, I am humbled. Wow again. Top #187401 - 10/21/09 02:50 PM Re: Calling all artist types [Re: Jackie] BranShea Carpal Tunnel Registered: 06/23/06 Posts: 3762 Loc: Netherlands, the Hague Took my time to get through that article attentively. Must admit I only really understand the lower "Usage" part of it. The HSV - HSL model is used on my classical radio forum to color text with. It does not have the little cubes or quadrants we have here. It gives a large quadrant for 'saturation' and a side bar for 'hue'. To 'make' your color you must combine the two. I do understand there is a difference in perception and understanding between colored light and colored dyes/pigments (CMYK). (Painters mostly just use RYB : red , yellow and blue ). The gist of it is all too difficult for a mathematical nitwit. But still, I got some of it. I do understand the hue- saturation principle. Beautiful article but oh.. maths! 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