Understanding Color Space and Color Palettes
Another important factor in any graphic is the color used in it. The right colors can make an image sing; the wrong colors turn that song into a dirge. To produce colors that enhance your images, you need to have a good understanding of how your Mac works with color.
Your Mac uses two basic techniques to work with color. With one, your Mac specifies a color's coordinates in a color space. With the other, your Mac specifies the color's position in a fixed palette of colors.
Color Space
A color space is simply a system that uses a set of numbers to represent the gamut of possible colors. Many Mac applications use the Red Green Blue (RGB) color space, which breaks down colors into their red, green, and ...
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