Color has value. What is this value?
Value in color refers to the relative lightness or darkness of a hue.
The purpose of value is to serve as a critical element in creating depth, contrast, and form in the arts and design.
Sometimes people underestimate the importance of color. They see color as a form, surface painting, and a child's toy. However, color is hypnotizing you.
Our eyes are actually being hypnotized by color, but our minds can't see that.
Let's analyze a simple thing. I created this simple composition with analogous colors.
Do you see the depth in that simple image I just created?
What is the most standout?
How many layers are in that image?
It separates everything: the foreground, the midground, and the background. It doesn't make the standout point blend with the background. That's the purpose of value. Depth and Contrast. You see the foreground clearly, you see the standout point or the point of interest clearly, and you see the background clearly.
The eyes will immediately recognize this value.
What happens if everything is blending in same value?
Well, everything is blending; the depth isn't there. The point of interest won't be a standout point as it blends with everything surrounding it. Basically, the reader's eyes will scan everything. One of the greatest things about value is being recognized at first glance. In art and design, being recognize in first glance is the biggest achievement.
Our eyes see everything in patterns. If there is depth, your eyes will follow it. Your eyes will see the foreground first, after that the midground, and lastly the background in a few seconds. Just look at the thing I created. What do your eyes do? You will immediately see the yellow, the standout point, after the foreground, the burgundy in front, after that, you see the whole picture, and you see the depth. If everything is blending, your eyes are basically scanning everything.
This is why design always lures your eyes into seeing something.
I don't want my eyes scanning everything; I want the cover to lure me to see everything, which one I see first, after that, which one, after that, which one, etc.
That's why there are some reference of composition in designs, arts, and even movies
Basically, your eyes are being hypnotized to see something, and your mind is being lured into it. If you are watching a movie, basically the movie is luring you into watch specific thing.
However, if you don't want to use those composition references, you can just use the value only. Just takes your point of interest in the middle, and makes different values surround it, so the eyes will immediately be drawn to the middle.
Design must be working in black and white first. If it's not, then the design isn't working.
Color is like the skin, Value is the bone, and the structure.
Value in color refers to the relative lightness or darkness of a hue.
The purpose of value is to serve as a critical element in creating depth, contrast, and form in the arts and design.
Sometimes people underestimate the importance of color. They see color as a form, surface painting, and a child's toy. However, color is hypnotizing you.
Our eyes are actually being hypnotized by color, but our minds can't see that.
Let's analyze a simple thing. I created this simple composition with analogous colors.
Do you see the depth in that simple image I just created?
What is the most standout?
How many layers are in that image?
It separates everything: the foreground, the midground, and the background. It doesn't make the standout point blend with the background. That's the purpose of value. Depth and Contrast. You see the foreground clearly, you see the standout point or the point of interest clearly, and you see the background clearly.
The eyes will immediately recognize this value.
What happens if everything is blending in same value?
Well, everything is blending; the depth isn't there. The point of interest won't be a standout point as it blends with everything surrounding it. Basically, the reader's eyes will scan everything. One of the greatest things about value is being recognized at first glance. In art and design, being recognize in first glance is the biggest achievement.
Our eyes see everything in patterns. If there is depth, your eyes will follow it. Your eyes will see the foreground first, after that the midground, and lastly the background in a few seconds. Just look at the thing I created. What do your eyes do? You will immediately see the yellow, the standout point, after the foreground, the burgundy in front, after that, you see the whole picture, and you see the depth. If everything is blending, your eyes are basically scanning everything.
This is why design always lures your eyes into seeing something.
I don't want my eyes scanning everything; I want the cover to lure me to see everything, which one I see first, after that, which one, after that, which one, etc.
That's why there are some reference of composition in designs, arts, and even movies
Basically, your eyes are being hypnotized to see something, and your mind is being lured into it. If you are watching a movie, basically the movie is luring you into watch specific thing.
However, if you don't want to use those composition references, you can just use the value only. Just takes your point of interest in the middle, and makes different values surround it, so the eyes will immediately be drawn to the middle.
Design must be working in black and white first. If it's not, then the design isn't working.
Color is like the skin, Value is the bone, and the structure.
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