Learning color space

The color space

there are a wide variety of color space for graphic designing, photography and other color related arts. By mixing the colors Red, Blue and Green and the shades of white and black. the computer monitor is able to connect with us using colors.

Lab(cielab)
 -is a range of colors that has the lightness in it. it can show you the neon or luminance of the color. unlike the CMYK and sRGB they can't bring up luminosity. a device dependent color space.



Pro Photo RGB
 -is the most used color space in photography because unlike sRGB it has a most wide range of colors. it was developed by kodak.


Adobe RGB (1998)
 -is an RGB space that was developed by the Adobe in 1998. it was designed to overpass the CMYK printing colorspace.


sRGB
 -is much smaller color space than Adobe RGB (1998) used for web designing


CMYK
  -a color space that is used for printing. Although it is smaller than other color spaces it is still used because of its relation to printers.


source: http://graphicdesign.about.com/od/colorbasics/a/cmyk.htm
http://www.luminous-landscape.com/tutorials/prophoto-rgb.shtml
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adobe_RGB_color_space
http://www.kenrockwell.com/tech/adobe-rgb.htm
http://www.lzxindustries.net/?post_type=module&p=1115



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