This book provides a solid foundation for the development of personal color sense. The book explores basic principles of two-dimensional compositions, as well as the way color affects the apparents shape, size, position, and elements in a composition. This second edition has more than doubled in page count. Two new sections have been added: Digital Colors and Color Expression. 424 illus.
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This review is from: Principles of Color Design: Designing with Electronic Color (Paperback)
It explains very well the color principle and some design techniques. It is a good book for beginning graphic artists with no formal art background (those who never studied art/GD in school). There are 5 parts to this book. Part one establishes desing principles, part 2 examines common color principles related to the use of color pigments, part 3 helps the beginner develop systematic color thinking with the aid of excercises, part 4 introduces priciples and techniques for generating colors on the computer and part 5 presents color sets and guides for attaining color harmony. Note, however, that this book is a bit outdated. It showed when trying to explain certain design techniques using old version Photoshop tool bar.
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This book was chosen for our Color Theory class in college. Luckily, this wasn't my first Color Theory class, so I could understand most of what the book said. However, it is a horrible read. There are several typos and incorrect information that the professor had to correct. The wording is hard to follow, so several times I found myself back-tracking just to figure out what the subject being discussed was. After a couple of classes, our professor abandoned the book entirely as it was too much trouble for the student's to read.
I would not recommend this book to anyone just starting out in color theory/design.
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I actually perchased this book two years ago in college for an art class and have used it in almost every assignment and project I have completed there after.
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chroma gradations, unrelated hues, percent blackness, minimum chroma, strongest chroma, hue gradations, forming monochromatic, weaker chroma, full chroma, one value step, strong chroma, chroma contrast, chroma strength, value gradations, analogous hues, complementary hues, low key colors, hue contrast, informal compositions, color circle, analogous color schemes, primary color lights, intermediate key, surrounded color, two hues New!
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chroma gradations, unrelated hues, percent blackness, minimum chroma, strongest chroma, hue gradations, forming monochromatic, weaker chroma, full chroma, one value step, strong chroma, chroma contrast, chroma strength, value gradations, analogous hues, complementary hues, low key colors, hue contrast, informal compositions, color circle, analogous color schemes, primary color lights, intermediate key, surrounded color, two hues New!
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