Why Study Digital Color?
nAs a User
–Awareness of influence of color (and good and bad use by others)
nAs a Designer
–Graphic design (make a Web page that works)
–UI (create UIs that are effective, fun to use)
nAs a Programmer
–Make better tools for others (e.g., color pickers, graphics software)
–Translate between different “color spaces” (e.g., RGB to HSV)
–Control interpolation between colors (gradients)
–Understand and perform color matching, etc. (e.g., in
printing)