From the course: Digital Imaging for Business Professionals
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What is color space?
From the course: Digital Imaging for Business Professionals
What is color space?
- When working with computer graphics, it's important to pay attention to color space. This will affect how the images are printed or displayed later on as you move through the digital imaging process. Color space affects many things. Essentially it is a specific organization of color within the file. How the individual colors are represented. Now this can be useful because it allows for color to be reproducible in both analog and digital representations. Analog being things like print, and digital being computer displays. The three most common types that you'll encounter are going to be RGB, or Red Green Blue color model. Grayscale, that lacks color, but simply uses one detail channel for gray values. And CMYK, Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Key, or black depending upon how you like to think of it. Color space can also be referred to as image mode by some software applications. When working on computers or using an attached display, the most common model you're going to encounter is RGB,…
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