RE: Sliders?

[Judy Miller]

On Friday, July 03, 1998 10:20 PM, John Croteau [SMTP:

croteauerols [dot] com

] wrote:


>   This would be quite easy in Flash 3 if you were dealing with light but

> the big problem is that you seem to want to demonstrate paint/ink color

> mixing on a TV/Computer monitor. They don't work the same way. The

> computer monitor mixes light positively whereas paint mixes in a

> negative way. For instance a bright Red and a Bright Green makes Yellow

> on a TV screen but results in a Brown with ink.

>    Therefore you need 2 color wheels but can't just use an alpha mix to

> show how they would appear with ink. Another color set would have to be

> created to show through at the mix point to show a ink or paint mixing.


True John, but  I am planning on using transparent overlays as opposed to 

mixing the colours, and it seems to be working. I plan on creating for example 

12 separate overlays, one for each colour family, which can vary in opacity to 

cover the entire colour wheel to show the effect of how laying a glaze of a 

certain colour/s would effect the other colour families.


Obviously this is not to be taken as a serious method of colour theory as 

without a palette knife and a set of paints, this does not make much sense, but 

more as a general guide to teach the fundementals of using colour.


I want to be able to show the effects of adding colour glazes, changing the 

background colour, using earth tones and greyscale to tone, and some general 

colour theory and information about the colour families and the psychology of 

colour.


I run a mailing list for decorative artists and one of the biggest obstacles 

seems to be successfully using colour. I figured, if I can use flash to somehow 

get the point across, it would be a good thing. No homage to Martha Stewart 

intended ;-)


Judy Miller

Fall River Decorative Arts

http://fallriver.ns.ca |

judyfallriver [dot] ns [dot] ca (mailto:judyfallriver [dot] ns [dot] ca)

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