Analog and Digital Color

 

1. What are pixels? Pixels are the smallest unit in a digital display. Up to millions of pixels make up an image or video on a device's screen.

1. How is color viewed in computer monitors?

A monitor generates three colors of light and the different colors we see are due to different combinations and intensities of these three primary colors.

1. What is the additive color space?

The additive color model describes how light produces color.

1. Describe which additive color sliders values in InDesign you would use to make white and black.

The colors of the addictive color are green, red and blue that produce white light.

1. What is the subtractive color space?

Subtractive Color Space is the mixing of pigments in substrate.

1. Describe which subtractive color sliders values in InDesign you would use to make white and black.

The colors I would use to make a white and black color would be blue and red since this colors both make white light.

1. What is color calibration?

Color calibration is to measure or adjust the color response of a device to a known state. 

1. How does the PMS (Pantone Matching System) color system ensure color fidelity?

The printer looks up the Pantone number, which is unique for that particular color, and when it finds a match, it uses it in the printing process.

1. What is analog color?

Analogous colors are groups of colors that are next to each othere.

1. What is digital color?

Digital colors are colors that can be seen in paper via the internet.