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Color Theory
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The use of a cohesive combination colors in a design or image created by repetition and harmony in a color palette.

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The purity or intensity of a color.

3.
A hue + gray.

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The basic colors (red, yellow, blue) that cannot be created by combining other colors and from which all other colors can be made.

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A color scheme that uses only one color with tints, shades and tones of that color.

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Symmetry around a central axis so that one side of the object is the mirror image of the other side. Also called 'mirror symmetry.'

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The range of saturated and desaturated colors used in an image or design.

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An image frame that is oriented vertically.

9.
The qualities and appearance of the surface of an object or plane in an image or design. Examples: smooth, rough, cracked, etc.

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A color scheme that uses a key color with the two colors that lie on either side of its complement. Example: red with yellow-green and blue-green.

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The part of an image which occupied by the figure or subject.

12.
Colors that elicit a feeling of coolness, associated with the sky, air, water or grass in nature, calm, receding, for example, blue, green, purple.

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An area of lightest value in a design, in an image or on an object. (2)

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Colors that are on one side of the color wheel that elicit a feeling of warmth, associated with the sun and fire in nature, active, advancing, for example, red, orange and yellow.

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The color value of an object seen in neutral light.

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The center of interest in an image or design created by using color, contrast, proportion, etc.

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Colors which appear opposite each other on the color wheel. These colors complete each other on the color spectrum.

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An area of medium brightness, between the shadow value and the highlight highlight. (3)

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A color of lowered intensity or purity, usually because it has been mixed with its complement.

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The use of a cohesive and pleasing combination of colors in a design or image.

21.
color

22.
The repetition of shapes, values, colors, etc., to create a sense of movement and visual interest.

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A hue + white.

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The arrangement, variation and contrast of light and dark values in an image.

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The range of colors used in an image or design.

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