COLOUR

Question 1

in RGB:

Red + Green =

Answer 1

Yellow

Question 2

in RGB:

Green + Blue =

Answer 2

Cyan

Question 3

in RGB:

Red + Blue =

Answer 3

Magenta

Question 4

Colour Panel - show sliders:

Answer 4

Fly-out menu / Show Options

Question 5

in CMYK:

Cyan + Magenta =

Answer 5

Blue

Question 6

in CMYK:

Magenta + Yellow =

Answer 6

Red

Question 7

in CMYK: Yellow + Cyan =

Answer 7

Green

Question 8

View the HSB model:

Answer 8

Color Picker dialog?

Question 9

in the HSB model,

what is hue?

Answer 9

Hue is the colour.

Question 10

In the HSB model:
in what units is Hue expressed?

Answer 10

in degrees, on a wheel:

Red = zero (at 3 o'clock) and, ***counter-clockwise:***
Yellow = 60 degrees (1 o'clock)
Green = 120 degrees (11 o'clock)
Cyan = 180 degrees (9 o'clock)
Blue = 240 degrees (7 o'clock)
Magenta = 300 degrees (5 o'clock)

Question 11

RGB and CMYK models compared:

Answer 11

Question 12

In Ai, a colour theme is…

Answer 12

…a set of swatches

Question 13

Delete all swatches NOT used in your document:

Answer 13

Fly-out menu + Select All Unused – then delete.

Question 14

Restore default swatches:

Answer 14

Swatch Libraries / Default Swatches /

• select in drop-down

Question 15

saturation, what is it?
How do you desaturate?

Answer 15

a colour’s intensity
also referred to as a colour’s tint
You desaturate a colour by adding white to it.
Also check the colour picker to see how it displays saturation.

Question 16

brightness of a colour
What is it?

Answer 16

The less black darkening a colour, the brighter colour is.
Also check the colour picker to see how it displays brightness.

Question 19

The HSB Model…

Answer 19

…is at the core of everything colour in Illustrator.
Use it to find, create, customise and edit colours.

Question 20

‘Recolor Artwork’ dialog

Answer 20

Formerly known as the ‘Edit Colors’ dialog.
With your multicolour graphic selected, open the dialog (icon is a segmented wheel in the toolbar).
The wheel in the panel displays the colours in your graphic.
Locking the colours changes them as one.
The Recolor Artwork dialog allows for FANTASTIC creative work, and one can benefit hugely from watching tutorials on Youtube - here’s a link to a great one : https://youtu.be/u25xsb8243Y
I think you’ll be very impressed :)

Question 21

What is hue?

Answer 21

The hue is a pure colour, any colour, unaffected by white or black.

Question 22

the ‘Adobe Color Themes’ panel - what does it require for it to display correctly?

Answer 22

an internet connection - and probably being logged into one’s Adobe account.

Question 23

RAINBOW -
HEX + RGB VALUES…

Answer 23

Question 24

subtractive v. additive colour system:
which is which and why are they called these names?

Answer 24

CMYK is subtractive:

mixing CMYK physical colours, such as gouache, begins with white and ends with black - as one adds colour, the result gets darker and tends to black. Thus, as one adds colour one loses light - light is subtracted.

RGB is additive:

mixing RGB colours begins with black and ends with white - as more colour is added, the result is lighter and tends to white. Thus, as one adds colour one adds light.

ADDITIVE = YOU ADD LIGHT AS YOU ADD COLOURS