Compressed Colour...
This week we had another lecture on colour. This lecture focused on the colour wheel introduced by Sir Isaac Newton in 1666 and at the start I thought that this was going to be a bit dull as I can remember doing all this at school. It started out like I was at school but it went into it with a lot more detail which I found useful. I can see this really making a difference as when you get stuck picking a colour, it may help you pick one that complements or contrasts with it.
The image compression lecture was useful and it was good to learn how the different image compressions worked. To me it seems so primitive how images work as each pixel is represented by a colour but I know that without this that image quality would be very poor.
The compression report is something that I'm really not enjoying at the moment and I find it quite boring to be honest. Although I see the helpful side to it I think we could have done something more constructive with image compression. Saying that, I am through the worst of it and I have all the data set out in a spreadsheet so I all I have to do is write the evaluation about my findings which I find a lot more interesting than compressing images all afternoon.
Overall I think this week has been good, even though I had the compression report. I would have liked to have done a bit more work at home before coming back but it was my birthday over the weekend and found it a bit difficult to fit it all in. I will hopefully catch up over this weekend and get some much needed inspiration and work put into my sketchbook.
3 comments:
"Happy Birthday" for last weekend! It's a good job Isaac was hanging out in Lincoln due to the plague in Cambridge or we wouldn't of had this lecture.
Happy birthday for last weekend!
I agree that compressing images was rather tedious. Maybe you should have got a friend to help you? Ooops! Sorry, I just had a moment of using some intellect there - God forbid :P.
Joking aside, image compression is very important. I found it amazing how you could reduce the size of files so much with very little loss in quality.
On the colour wheel front, have you come across this site from Adobe? http://kuler.adobe.com/.
It's rather good, and helps you come up with some interesting colour palettes.
I've got the three Index books you bought, and they're a good thing to thumb through. Don't worry about the layout one seeming dated - apart from anything else, it's worth remembering that most of your clients have completely different tastes to you, and it's good to rein yourself in sometimes!
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