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What are color modes?

What are color modes?

From the course: Digital Media Foundations

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What are color modes?

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- [Instructor] When we think of color, well, the truth is we tend to not think about it much at all really. We see things and interpret what we see as best we can. The rods and cones in our eyes capture light differently. In this way, our eyes have a color system. Cameras, computers, and displays do, too. And different color systems exist that are used to capture images in cameras, then another system's used to record the information. Another system stores it, yet another system reads it, and another displays it. It's pretty vague and unhelpful, isn't it? Actually, the systems all work in pretty familiar ways but with new names. When capturing color, we have a challenge. Cameras can't capture all the colors that appear in the real world. And when we say color, I suppose we should give that word a meaning, which is generally considered to be the colors our eyes can see. There are colors outside the visible spectrum. You've probably heard of ultraviolet or infrared, for example. But…

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