A Course in Color

I took a recommendation from my professor and decided to try an online news course called "color in news design" (for online news) from poynter.org


What I learned:

• what colors make other colors seem lighter and darker and what colors adapt with their background colors.

Example: grey adapts with its background while a color like green does not does not

• how color can add dimension and different hues can make pictures look differently.

A review of the course....

The most helpful exercises were when you were asked to read less and participate actively more. Some segments of the course had page design exercises where you could change the colors to create different looks and moods on a fake newspaper page. Those were the most effective because I was actually putting into action and seeing how color made a difference in the way an online page could look.

The color on the web section was slightly more applicable because one must remember that color varies from monitor to moniter.


Problems:

• text was small and hard to read

• some segments of the couse were really basic and some where slightly boring and art-class repititive