How chroma and saturation are different

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Color Nerd

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@Al-isthatyou 4 ай бұрын

I don't grasp all this information immediately, but boy do I have fun listening. Thank you for sharing! 😊

@lynnie57 Жыл бұрын

I'm always learning something new!

@---Dana---- 10 ай бұрын

I had to watch this 3x 🤪. Thank you!

@christinelv7075 Жыл бұрын

That’s so interesting in how colors are so vast!

@danieldunkley6671 8 ай бұрын

Very helpful breakdown. Personally i think the " tip away from white is a bit confusing but that might just be me" overall i think this is the clearest Ive heard on the distinction Thank you !

@gordkennedy1059 11 ай бұрын

I still don't get it. I cannot get my head around the difference between saturation and chroma. So if I take blue and add white it's going to get lighter, If I take black it will get darker. But eith both black and white the colour becomes more muted and less saturated. However if I add some yellow it begins to become more like the middle right colour. Like a cyan? So maximum saturation of a colour is without any addition of white or black? While chroma refers to the pure form of the colour. So in effect saturation is to do with how much light is being absorbed and reflected by the subject. But chroma is the local color of the subject. I am still very confused :(

@dylanraga 9 ай бұрын

Think of chroma as a magnitude of colorfulness for a color's given lightness. Think of saturation as a chroma percentage, with 100% being the maximum chroma for a given color's lightness, and 0% being gray of the same lightness. For near-gray colors, chroma will be near zero, but this isn't necessarily true for saturation. Since saturation is proportional to the maximum chroma relative to its lightness, saturation can be 100% and still be near gray for colors really dark or really bright colors. For pure white and black, note that they have no chroma variations, and both the maximum and minimum chroma for black is black, and for white is white. This means that, technically, 100% saturation of white is still white.

@ksenyameow 5 ай бұрын

@@dylanraga thank you so much! Your explanation helped me finally figured out how to distinguish them♡

@Dreamkilled 2 ай бұрын

Looks like saturation is how much the paint stains white paper. Chroma is how much color in the paint. You will get less chroma if you add white, gray or black paint, and in special case if you add paint that cancel original color.

@lilithowl 7 ай бұрын

Just what I was looking for! Concise and helpful.

@scarlettyoungyt 2 ай бұрын

i have a question. lets say we tilted further and further away from grey, almost drawing a semi circle around, would that lead us to black? and is black a highly saturated colour? google has always given me mixed answers haha. i guess my question is actually, when/where do we stop tilting away from white? i hope these questions make sense

@scarlettyoungyt 2 ай бұрын

actually i think im being silly. instead of tilting away, are we moving diagonally? sorry i have so many questions haha

@Eloelo0v0 21 күн бұрын

I’m also studying color right now and from what I’m getting I don’t think black is the highest saturation nor it is the lowest saturation, because no matter how much you try to change the saturation, black will always be black🤔

@sebumpostmortem Ай бұрын

I was taught 300 years ago, back in the days when customers with olive oil skin "must be fixed, at least, the face", mind you🤦🏻‍♀️... but I guess that chroma-tone-muted belong to the same concept (the amount of gray that a hue contains) and saturation-shade-intensity (how close to black we are). I just guess😅 Gorrrrgeus explanation, thank you. 🧛🏻‍♀️🖤

@riccardofoschi 6 ай бұрын

I think that, when you say "saturation increases as you tip away from white" is partially true but a bit missleading, because from my understanding saturation isolines are simmetrical V shaped lines connecting the black and white corners of the triangular section of the color space (since you are using a double conical colour space). If this is true, a more correct sentence would be "saturation increases as you tip away from white or black but only up to the middle line perpendicular to the white-black line". I'm sure there would be a better way to phrase that but I couldn't find any, and I'm sure you phrased it as you did to simplify the concept as much as possible :). BTW I learned a lot from your videos and I love your content! Keep it up!

@riccardofoschi 6 ай бұрын

ok I coulnd't sleep because of this misunderstanding, because I was sure you could not do any mistakes concerning colours :)! in fac you didn't! I've studied more the problem and you are right! . Let me clarify, Saturation has a different meaning if we consider HSV or HSL models. In HSV model saturation behave like you say, in HSL it behave differently. Furthermore brightness is suynonimous of value, but lightness is not synonymous of either of them, it's similar but it isn't really a synonymous, and since the saturation is in proportion to the brightness/value/lightness of the colour also the saturation has different meanings depending on the model we consider, and should have different definitions! now what I'd like to know is the following, since you say that the munsell color space uses lightness it should behave like the HSL model so the saturation should be V shaped, or maybe in munsell model he called it lightness but it is really relatable to value or brightness of modern HSV model and not to the lightness of the HSL model! What a damn mess is the field of colours....

@franzperdido 5 күн бұрын

I like the little color pallete thing you have there. Did you buy this somewhere or did build it yourself?

@MaximoJoshua Ай бұрын

curious how purity relates to those two concepts

@hoangson7976 2 ай бұрын

Thank you, i stuck at understand these for 1 year ago.

@cailinanne 9 ай бұрын

Yeah but what defines “brightness/lightness”? I fully understand this concept, but I don’t find it easy to understand (or explain) because of that factor.

@ColorNerd1 9 ай бұрын

See if my short on that subject helps clarify. Also, David Briggs' ww.huevaluechroma.com has an excellent explanation

@neeevirus Ай бұрын

If u take a color and make it greyscale you will see it's value That value is the color's brightness

@97scuoch 3 ай бұрын

I need MORE videos like this

@suppohkram Ай бұрын

I get this intuitively but I wouldn’t really know how to explain it specifically 😅

@ralphhenderson5276 2 ай бұрын

Mind blown, world upended.

@mahmoudelhennawy5505 2 ай бұрын

🎉🎉🎉🎉❤

@zakariaalam3584 9 ай бұрын

Thanks for your valuable information. I think you can make a video about hue value, chroma, saturation. I think that will be more helpful for us. Again Thanks

@neeevirus Ай бұрын

is chroma like saturation but when we turn it into grayscale same chroma will have the same value unlike saturation where same saturation may have different value

@ColorNerd1 Ай бұрын

If we turned a set of colors with the same chroma into grayscale, they could all be different lightnesses because we haven't set their lightnesses as equal, only their chroma.

@neeevirus Ай бұрын

@@ColorNerd1 oh I see I misunderstood what chroma is then

@awatercolourist Жыл бұрын

Thanks, Mr Colour Need 🙂👋🏼

@ferdikadatu687 Жыл бұрын

I don't know if I right but in raster software what he mean about chroma is saturation and saturation is luminance. If we slide to left in saturation bar at HSL bar, slide to left the color is going to white. Luminance if we slide to left it's going to black color. Correct me if I am wrong.

@AngeloBonaveraArt 10 күн бұрын

I watched this video 20 times. I think that bottom square is supposed to be black, not dark green. which would make Chroma and Saturation the same. No?

@ColorNerd1 8 күн бұрын

That would not make chroma and saturation the same, no. And the bottom square is not meant to be black. The column it's in is meant to be equal chroma, and black (at zero chroma) would not match those low chroma colors.