Color; An Introduction To Color - Konica Minolta DiMAGE G600 Instruction Manual

Color

The red, green, and blue color channels can be adjusted in five levels with the quality option in the
recording menu (p. 50). Any changes made are applied to the live image.

An introduction to color

In photography, red, green, and blue are the pri-
RED
mary colors. The secondary colors, cyan,
magenta, and yellow, are made from combining
the primary colors: cyan = blue + green,
MAGENTA YELLOW
magenta = blue + red, and yellow = red +
green. The primary and secondary colors are
grouped in complementary pairs: red and cyan,
green and magenta, and blue and yellow.
BLUE GREEN
Knowing the complementary colors is very
important in color balancing. If the image has a
CYAN
specific color cast, either subtracting the color
or adding its complementary color will create a
natural looking image.
Increase Image is too: Decrease
Adding or subtracting equal parts of red, green,
Blue + Green Red Red
and blue have no affect on the color balance.
Blue + Red Green Green
However, changing two colors equally has the
Red + Green Blue Blue
same affect as the opposite change with one
Red Cyan Blue + Green
color; +2 green and +2 red is the same as -2
Green Magenta Blue + Red
blue. The greatest change in a specific color
Blue Yellow Red + Green
comes by setting the color channels to their
opposite extremes. To make an image as blue
as possible, set the color channels to +2 blue, -
2 red, and -2 green.
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