Your Colors Suck (it's not your fault)

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Just wait until you get into color theory for print. If you think RGB sucks you should try CMYK

Acerola is the only person to make me drop everything i am doing to watch a 37 minute video about computer graphics

This video feels like a severe case of ADHD that managed to condense years of Art academy in 37 minutes while still talking about the same topic, it's glorious!

Honestly, if more math teachers teached using graphical examples of what you can do with it like you do, I think quite a bunch of people would be more interested in mathematics, amazing video as aways Acerola.

As somebody who has gone down the digital colour hellhole over the last few years, this video is QUITE GOOD. You've done a great job at summarizing many important concepts and this is a resource I'll absolutely be sharing with folks who I need to introduce the topic to in the future. Really well done!

im a biology student, but the way your videos grab my attention is absurd please never stop

13:55 : I’ve heard that mantis shrimp perception actually just uses “which of the 16 cone types is responding the most in this region”, so their color perception is, weirdly, just 16 colors, rather than a point in a 16-dimensional space.

For those who want to try out the color generator, it can be used in the wayback machine in the internet archives.

I've always been struggling with colors because I am colorblind. So learning the theory has always let me understand everything more clearly.

i suspect one major reason HSL palettes were still frequently picked is that it will sometimes "incorrectly" give you colors with more chromaticity. for a nice gradient, maybe you want one of those three parameters to remain constant, but for an artistic palette i would want at least one color that pops over the rest. if the OKLab generator was to occasionally provide a nice vibrant color along with the rest of the gradient, you might see even more people favoring it.

1. I saw a pale magenta (like #ffa1e4) 2. As a digital artist who learned color/drawing almost entirely digitally, this is a really cool video to watch! Digitally picked colors are my favorite part of the process, and while I manage to be good with digital color it is at the cost of being able to do literally anything else intuitively. And yes, HSL is useful but it can be a nightmare in terms of picking colors that we actually perceive as brighter. For me I use a special color profile to check, alongside the old fashioned eye squint to determine value. Also, I'm out of luck.

It truly amazes me how you can take such a seemingly small problem and dig into it to explain everything that is actually involved in solving it, which is a lot, while still managing to keep it all connected and fascinating. As a computer science student who is also into graphic design and painting, you genuinely make me consider taking a professional step towards graphics programming, which is something I didn’t even know about before I stumbled upon your channel. Thank for the inspirational videos and keep doing it like you do !

"Oh, this sounds like it'll be interesting" [15 minutes later] "Ah yes, imaginary colors."

Most digital artists who have a more painterly art style usually start with a grayscale base just to establish the contrasting values, then we add color on top of that using adjustment layers that doesn't affect the values, only the hues. That way we keep the dynamic contrast and can still use whatever color sliders we have at hand. Coloring a grayscale base isnt a universal thing ofc, but it has it's roots from oil painting techniques where artists paint a sepia toned underpainting that serves the same purpose.

Photoshop is not the only alternative nowadays. A painting software like Krita do offers Lab as well. Krita also allows to have a grayscale luminance view aside the canvas allowing for direct corrections.

At 16:41 I actually saw a very very light blue/cyan colour. But I also have a color blindness of two types with mid/low intensity (prota+deutera-nomalies) so that's what might cause such a difference from the expected outcome. I also really loved your video about mentioned topic. Keep the good work!

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You're such an excellent communicator! It's cool that we're coming at the same problems from different sides: my background is in art and I've been approaching computer graphics understanding perceptual color first, and now trying to learn how people have tried to map it to the tech we use to view it.

My senior capstone project in college was about palette selection from still images. I don't know anything about shaders or color theory, but because I've your videos I have been inspired to dust it off and see if I can get it to compile again. Edit: after jumping through a lot of hoops to make JavaFX work again, I got it to compile. 6 years ago me was not a good programmer. The basic concept was to analyze an image and select a limited color pallet that would keep that average (mean) color of the entire image the same. This mostly produced extremely ugly images, but occasionally made some really neat effects.