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What do color wheels actually show you?

What do color wheels actually show you?

From the course: Digital Media Foundations

What do color wheels actually show you?

- [Instructor] A color wheel displays the red, green and blue primary colors, with the secondary colors you'll get by combining them, positioned between them. Combine green and blue and you'll get cyan. Red and blue makes magenta. And green and red makes yellow. There's some interesting science behind these color combinations that are caused by changes to the wavelengths of the light. But we don't need to worry about that, we just need to know that these combinations are universal. When making an adjustment with a color wheel, the center of the wheel represents no adjustment at all. And moving the control puck out from the center towards the edge means making a stronger and stronger adjustment towards the hue you move towards. Color wheels don't give you information, they give you control over the appearance of your image. Vectorscopes, which are described in another lesson, do give you information. Color wheels are commonly divided into three, with one wheel adjusting color for…

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