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Defining Color Gamut, Color Spaces, and Color Systems
| Content Provider | Scilit |
|---|---|
| Author | Rhyne, Theresa-Marie |
| Copyright Year | 2016 |
| Description | Color gamut is a term used to describe the range of colors a device can reproduce. As indicated in Figure 2.1, the human eye–brain visual system can view a range of colors defined as the visible spectrum. Color imaging devices such as digital cameras, mobile phones, scanners, monitors, and printers have a smaller and narrower range of colors. Almost every device has a different color gamut. Color images on one device such as your mobile phone will look different when printed from your ink jet printer due to the different range of colors reproducible on each of the respective devices. In Chapter 1, we highlighted the Red, Green, and Blue (RGB) display and Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Key Black (CMYK) printing color models, showing their complementary relationship in Figure 1.6. In general, the range of colors displayed on an RGB display device or a computer monitor is usually greater than the range of colors that can be produced by a CMYK printer. Converting digital media between devices alters the color gamut of the original source image with some colors being lost in the process. Figure 3.1 shows a comparison between RGB and CMYK color gamut ranges and demonstrates how RGB display colors transfer to CMYK printed colors. Figure 3.1 Comparison of Red, Green, and Blue (RGB) and Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Key Black (CMYK) color gamut ranges. This figure shows that the RGB color gamut differs from the CMYK color gamut. As a result digital RGB images often appear altered when printed on a CMYK printer. (Image originally created by Annette Shacklett in 2003 using Adobe Photoshop and is in the public domain by request of the creator, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:RGB_CMYK_4.jpg.) Book Name: Applying Color Theory to Digital Media and Visualization |
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| Ending Page | 77 |
| Page Count | 41 |
| Starting Page | 37 |
| DOI | 10.1201/9781315380384-3 |
| Language | English |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited |
| Publisher Date | 2016-10-14 |
| Access Restriction | Open |
| Subject Keyword | Book Name: Applying Color Theory To Digital Media and Visualization Artificial Intelligence Color Gamut Digital Key Black Cmyk Printer Range of Colors Printed Colors |
| Content Type | Text |
| Resource Type | Chapter |
