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Choosing a color space

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Choosing a color space

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- [Instructor] In a perfect world, all of our devices, our printers, and our monitors, and our screens and our phones, they'd all be able to display or print all of the colors that the human eye can see. But, they can't. In fact, not only does each device display a subset of colors, different devices display different subsets of color. Or to put it another way, if we think of a device as being able to represent a certain number of crayons, then different devices, not only have different numbers of crayons, so some might have 10 while others have 20, they also have different colored crayons, so one might have three blues and three greens while another only has two blues, but four greens. So, there are many reasons that different devices represent different colors. Take a screen for example, it uses an additive process to represent colors, where adding equal parts of red, blue, and green light produces white while…

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