Color models are fairly basic in that all they tell you is what amount of each color needs to be blended to create a third color.
Color Management: Color Models, Color Spaces and Color Profiles
Last week we started on our adventure in making sense of color management, a topic that is of increasing importance as the world of photography transitions from film to digital.
Color Model - A method of representing color as a subset of colors.
Color Space - Also called gamut or color gamut. Complete subset of colors.
color models
The way colors are broken down and specified in a particular application or system.
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Color Model
A system designed to specify color information numerically; RGB, CMYK, and CIELAB are examples.
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Color Model: How you describe a color. Imagine trying to explain "red" to a blind person. You can't, without a prearranged "language." Color models are those languages. See CMYK, HSB, PMS and RGB.
color model
a color measurement scale or system that numerically specifies the perceived attributes of color.
A color model is a way of describing and specifying a color. The term is often used loosely to refer to both a color space system and the color space on which it is based.
RGB
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CMY(K) color model. A way of defining all possible colors in percentages of cyan (C), magenta (M), yellow (Y), and frequently, black (K). Black is added to improve rendition of shadow detail.
The color model in which all colors are described as combinations of these four colors. Most color printers (ink-jet, laser, dye-sublimation, Wax thermal) are based on CMYK color; even if they contain additional colors, i.e.
The CMYB color model, based on the cyan/magenta/yellow/black scale, is a common alternative to the RGB color system.
The L*a*b color model is based on the model proposed by the Commission Internationale d'Eclairage (CIE) in 1931 as an international standard for color measurement. In 1976, this model was refined and named CIE L*a*b.Lasso tools: ...
HSB - A color model that describes color in terms of Hue, Saturation, and Brightness.
HSL - A color model that describes color in terms of Hue, Saturation, and Lightness.
RGB
An additive color model that starts with black, the absence of light. Computer monitors emit a combination of three colors: red, green, and blue to create a full color display.
Firmware in the camera, or a software in a raw converter program such as Adobe Camera Raw, interprets the raw data from the sensor to obtain a full color image, because the RGB color model requires three intensity values for each pixel: one each for ...
The color model in which colours are produced by combining various percentages of red, green, and blue light.
However, the 0 - 255 range is what the current RGB color model governing all TVs, cameras, scanners, and computer monitors. Throw ANY image, RAW or JPEG into Photoshop and you'll see that the "Levels" has only a range of 0 - 255, per color channel.
Hue, Saturation, Brightness (HSB) Color Model - A model that defines all possible colors by specifying a particular hue and then adding or subtracting percentages of black and white.
Hue - A pure color.
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Magic Color Picker is a color selection tool for designers, artists and programmers for selecting colors using different color models. It supports 7 different modes and RGB, HSV, HSL and YUV color models.
Short for red, green, blue; the color model used for generating video on a display screen. It displays colors as varying intensities of red, green, and blue dots.
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CMYK - Cyan, magenta, yellow, black; often called process colors; a color model used to optimize images for printing in which all colors are described as a mixture of these four colors.
Notice that the first color readout is set up with the hue, saturation, and brightness color model. The brightness is the primary concern here. When the cursor is placed over the darker reds (see Figure 8), the brightness reading is 8%.
Figure 5: Here's what happens to the same pure colors when they're simply desaturated using the Hue/Saturation dialog in Photoshop. Because Hue/Saturation works in the HSL color model rather than in Lab color, ...
The three colors to which the human visual system, digital cameras and many other devices are sensitive; the colors used in displays and input devices. They represent the additive color model, ...
Hue
A term used to describe the entire range of colors of the spectrum; hue is the component that determines just what color you are using. In gradients, when you use a color model in which hue is a component, you can create rainbow effects.
 See also: Color, Image, Digital, Camera, Light
  
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