Thursday, February 14, 2013

Color Spaces

  • RGB is used for illuminating color
    • Red, Green, and Blue light are added together
  • YUV is used for transmitting color
    • YCbCr is the digital version
    • Y is the luminance
    • U is the blue-difference
    • V is the red-difference
  • CMYK is used for printing color
  • HSV is used in digital image editing
    • Hue, Saturation, Value

Color Spaces on Wikipedia.