

However, their green looks nice because cerulean is a much lighter blue. Magenta is a type of red that is closer to pink, opposed to vermillion, which is closer to orange. Group 2 had magenta red, citron yellow and cerulean blue. This is because ultramarine is too dark of a blue to create nice greens with. This means their triangle looks nice and red, but their circle’s green is muddy. Group 1 had vermillion red, citron yellow and ultramarine blue to their disposal. The following results come from painting:Įven though all groups had the same assignment, each group’s result looks different. The kids are very experienced with painting already, so the teacher can confidently leave the smarter ones to their own devices, and spent more time on those who need help. The teacher gives them a painting assignment: They need to paint a red triangle, a blue square, a green circle and put a yellow border around the three. The class of 28 children is subdivided in groups of 7. To explain the point of color management, you’d first need to learn which problem color management tries to solve. Maybe, after reading this, you may feel like changing the default, to get new and interesting results from filters, blending modes, or just the color smudge brush. We’ll go into what these terms mean in the theory, but if you’re here only for trying to figure out which is the default, you now know it. With the new color space browser this profile is marked with (default) when using 8bit.

This means you can choose for sRGB built-in or sRGB-elle-v2-srgbtrc.icc. If you’ve never worked with color management before, and have no clue what it is, then know that you’ve probably been working in the 8bit RGB color space with the sRGB profile. Color management is pretty useful for people who work in digital imaging professionally, and hopefully this page will explain why. Or maybe you just wondered what all these ‘color model’ and ‘color profile’ things you can find in the menus mean. You may have heard that Krita has something called color-management.
