Colours lie next to each other on the colour wheel. They typically combine beautifully and create appealing schemes for your designs.
Analogous
Complementary colours are those that lie opposite each other on the colour wheel.
Complementary
Graphics Interchange Format
Capable of displaying simple animation
.GIF
Joint Photographic Experts Group. JPEG format is virtually synonymous with digital photography.
.JPG
Triadic colours are those that are evenly spaced out around the colour wheel, as though you're looking at an equilateral triangle.
Triad
Pronounced as “ping”. Portable Network Graphics. Its development was basically for the purpose of transporting images on the Internet at faster rates.
.PNG
A variation of the complementary colour scheme, the split-complementary technique takes a base colour and then uses the two adjacent colours as its
Split complementary
is a genre of photography used for the depiction of inanimate subject matter, typically a small group of objects. It is the application of photography to the still life artistic style.
Still life photography
Materials, programs, applications and the like that teachers and students use to formulate new information to aid learning through the use, analysis, evaluation and production of visual images.
Visual media and information
refers to materials, programs, applications and the like that teachers and students use to formulate new information to aid learning through
the use, analysis, evaluation and production of visual images.
Visual media
different types of Visual Media
photography
video
screenshots
infographics
datavisualization (charts and graphs)
comicstrips/cartoons
memes
visualnote-taking
What is the primary purpose of Visual Media?
to gain attention, createmeaning, and facilitate retention.
refers to the building blocks or basic units in the construction of a visual image.
Visual design elements
describes a shape or outline. It can create texture and
can be thick or thin.
Line
usually a geometric area that stands out from the space
next to or around it, or because of differences in value,
color, or texture.
Shape
the degree of light and dark in a design. It is the
contrast between black and white and all the tones in
between.
Value
the way a surface feels or is perceived to feel, it can be added to attract or repel interest to a visual element.
Texture
illusion of the surfaces peaks and valleys, resulting in a feeling of smoothness or roughness in objects.
Visual texture
determined by its hue (name of color), intensity (purity
of the hue), and value (lightness or darkness of hue).
Color
may be used for emphasis, or may elicit emotions from viewers.
Color
plays a major role in creating aesthetic appeal.
Color Combination
is a basic but completely essential tool for combining colours and is
designed in such a way that virtually any colours you
pick from it will look beautiful together.
Color wheel
Primary colors
red, blue, yellow
Secondarycolor
green, orange, purple
are created by combining primary and secondary colours
tertiary colors
red, orange, yellow and variations of these three colours – are vibrant and full of energy.
Warm colors
green, blue and violet – offer calm and tranquility, and they're often more subdued than warm colours.
Cool colors
are considered to be neutral.
white, black, grey
make a color lighter by adding white
Tint
make a color darker by adding black
Shade
add grey to create a completely different tone.
tones
those that lie opposite each other on the color wheel. Red and green are complementary colors, as are red-purple and yellow-green.
Complementary colors
lie next to each other on the color wheel. They typically combine beautifully and create appealing schemes for your designs.
Analogous
you'll use four colors arranged into two complementary pairs, creating rich and beautiful combinations.
Tetradic color scheme or rectangle
you've got all four colors evenly spaced around the color wheel
squarecolorscheme
margins, typeface, type style, and colors is necessary, especially in slide presentations or documents that are more than one page.
Consistency
an area that first attracts attention in a composition. This can be by contrast of values, more colors, and placement in the format.
Center of Interest
a feeling of visual equality in shape, form, value, color, etc.
Balance
brings together a composition with similar units
Visually satisfying effect of combining similar or related elements
Harmony
shows the difference between shapes and can be used as a background to bring objects out and forward in a design.