Palette Picker
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What is a Color Palette?
A set of colors that we will be using for our film and animation that can set a film's mood or feeling. Mix them in varying percentages to make new colors and save them in your palette. Possible directions can include: warm colors, cool colors, neutral colors, washed colors, toon colors
"Black and white movies present the deliberate absence of color. This makes them less realistic than color films (for the real world is in color). They are more dreamlike, more pure, composed of shapes and forms and movements and light and shadow. Color films can simply be illuminated. Black and white films have to be lighted. With color, you can throw light in everywhere, and the colors will help the viewer determine one shape from another, and the foreground from the background. With black and white, everything would tend toward a shapeless blur if it were not for meticulous attention to light and shadow, which can actually create a world in which the lighting creates a heirarchy of moral values. " ROGER EBERT / October 30, 1988
How we percieve Color
Our perception of visual information. We have many more rods in our retinas than we have cones. rods pick up greyscale, the majority of our motion detection, and details within our peripheral vision. Cones are concentrated within our focal point of vision, and they pick up color. Therefore less saturated hues exercise our rods to get the needed information across, and there is a broader, higher resolution array of rods to take advantage of the big high resolution screens that we view in HD gaming. I imagine too much satuaration throughout the entire screen would more easily confuse our brains and tire out our eyes.
CMYK = Cyan, Magenta, Yellow and Black - You use this color space only if you are designing for print. For web, or screen display, use RGB (Red, Blue and Green).
HEX Code is the color represented in numerical form. For ex Black is 000000. 6 digits with two digits being for R, G and B (Red, Blue Green)
Examples
- In the movie 'Saving Private Ryan' ...the restricted palette does a good job of creating an oppressive, surreal mood which when coupled with realistic visuals produces a sort of too-real/welcome-to-Hell vibe...
- In the Xbox game Halo is very colorful and less depressing less gritty.
- In the movie Matrix's they tinted everything green.
Resources
Explore, Create, Download color palates directly to illustrator
http://kuler.adobe.com/
Online color selector for generating color palattes
http://www.colorschemer.com/
http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html
Useful Flash 8 Color Palette Tools
http://www.worqx.com/color/index.htm
http://www.v-ro.com/
Useful Flash 8 Bitmap Tools
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flash/articles/image_api_05.html
Useful Film related Color Links
http://colorusage.arc.nasa.gov/index.php
`Casablanca' gets colorized, BY ROGER EBERT / October 30, 1988
http://rogerebert.suntimes.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/19881030/PEOPLE/10010305
Color Me Beautiful : AND BROADCAST ME PROFITABLY
http://www.historyofcuba.com/jas/Articles/colorize.htm
"Just do it in black and white, Mr. Whistler... Ted Turner can put in the color later..."
- Cartoon by Peters, Dayton Daily News"We see and live our lives in color, the colorized aspect of it gives a film a more contemporary feel."
- Andy Kaplan, Hal Roach Studios
- Daily Breeze, Feb 15, 1987"We didn't think Topper could ever be improved, but we were most impressed with the colorization of that fun movie... A clever idea. The President joins me in sending best wishes for your continued success."
- Nancy Reagan, 1985"The vast majority of people really don't give a hoot whether you colorize movies or not. It's a handful of elitists in Hollywood that don't like it.
The most heartbreaking thing of all is "Gilligan's Island" - 98 episodes and 27 of 'em are in back and white. Is there anything wrong with colorizing the 27 episodes to make 'em all in color?
- Ted Turner, American Film, Jan/Feb '89
Flash 8 Custom Panels:
Harmony, a Flash 8 custom panel, provides color selection by primary colors, saturation and brightness. It calculates complementary colors based on traditional color theory. It colors a set of movieclips according to the choosen theory.
Web By Color, a Flash 8 custom panel, displays the web palette by primary and secondary colors. Within these hues, the swatches can be re-organized by saturation or brightness.
Its colors selected movieclips on the stage.