1. Color Systems

15. SUBTRACTIVE COLOR PROCESS The mixing of pigments and dyes so that all colors of light except the color are absorbed (subtracted).

17. ADDITIVE COLOR PROCESS The mixing of colored lights so that they shine on a surface, they combine (add) to make other colors.

20. SUBTRACTIVE COLOR PROCESS The mixing of pigments and dyes so that all colors of light except the color are absorbed (subtracted).

21. ADDITIVE COLOR PROCESS The mixing of colored lights so that they shine on a surface, they combine (add) to make other colors.

25. PRIMARY COLORS In a color system, the basic colors that cannot be broken down into other colors and that can be combined to create other colors.

26. Hue – the color wheel.

28. SECONDARY COLORS The product of mixing two primary colors.

29. TERTIARY COLORS The products of mixing a primary and secondary color.

30. Hue – the color wheel.

31. KEY Used synonymously with value. In a scale of values, high-key colors are lighter than colors in the middle of the scale; low-key colors are darker than the colors in the middle of the scale.

32. High key

33. Low key

34. TONE A color that has gray added to it.

35. TINT A color that has white added to it.

36. SHADE A color that has black added to it.

38. INTENSITY, SATURATION The strength or weakness of a color.