1 00:00:02,640 --> 00:00:12,060 Now let's use a computer to make five colors look like six. 2 00:00:17,040 --> 00:00:21,700 So we've seen with colored paper how we can make three colors look like two 3 00:00:22,280 --> 00:00:24,020 or three colors look like four. 4 00:00:24,780 --> 00:00:26,300 Depends on how you want to really look at that. 5 00:00:26,680 --> 00:00:30,380 The idea is that the same color can look different 6 00:00:30,380 --> 00:00:31,900 on two different backgrounds. 7 00:00:32,620 --> 00:00:33,900 This is the contrast, 8 00:00:34,360 --> 00:00:35,780 the seventh of the evidence 9 00:00:35,780 --> 00:00:38,180 color contrast that we call simultaneous contrast. 10 00:00:38,780 --> 00:00:42,840 That the same color can simultaneously look different 11 00:00:43,140 --> 00:00:44,520 on two different colored backgrounds, 12 00:00:44,680 --> 00:00:46,120 have different kinds of contrast. 13 00:00:47,220 --> 00:00:49,560 So we start this exercise here. 14 00:00:50,300 --> 00:00:51,700 We could easily start it with, 15 00:00:52,260 --> 00:00:56,280 say, three colors and just try to make them look like four, 16 00:00:56,400 --> 00:00:57,480 which is very, very simple. 17 00:00:58,060 --> 00:01:01,820 But a more engaging approach is to make five colors look like six. 18 00:01:02,520 --> 00:01:04,860 So if you create a set of 19 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:06,720 outlines, it looks roughly like this, 20 00:01:07,360 --> 00:01:09,800 where we have a series of rectangles 21 00:01:09,920 --> 00:01:11,440 that we can fill with colors. 22 00:01:12,160 --> 00:01:14,640 So here we have a background rectangle and then 23 00:01:14,720 --> 00:01:16,420 another one over here, same size. 24 00:01:17,140 --> 00:01:20,160 So one on the left and one on the right. 25 00:01:20,820 --> 00:01:29,440 And then we have a rectangle that moves horizontally across both of these. 26 00:01:29,580 --> 00:01:36,600 And then two smaller rectangles here and here that are going to go on top of this rectangle. 27 00:01:36,780 --> 00:01:40,800 So we have a series of rectangles that will be layered on top of one another in different ways. 28 00:01:41,620 --> 00:01:44,760 So let's begin by colorizing the two background rectangles. 29 00:01:44,880 --> 00:01:45,680 And on one side, 30 00:01:45,980 --> 00:01:47,560 I'm going to put yellows and oranges. 31 00:01:48,980 --> 00:01:50,220 Say yellow here. 32 00:01:50,480 --> 00:01:51,800 That's the outline. 33 00:01:52,680 --> 00:01:56,920 And on the other side, 34 00:01:57,000 --> 00:01:57,900 I'm going to put blue. 35 00:01:59,880 --> 00:02:05,120 And then this middle color is going 36 00:02:05,120 --> 00:02:08,240 to be something that I'll achieve through a blend of these two background colors. 37 00:02:08,840 --> 00:02:11,580 So I'll create a rectangle down below. 38 00:02:13,920 --> 00:02:17,900 Turn off the outline. 39 00:02:18,440 --> 00:02:22,120 Go to my gradient tool. 40 00:02:24,140 --> 00:02:26,200 Create a gradient. 41 00:02:26,780 --> 00:02:28,700 And now I'm going to colorize that gradient 42 00:02:28,700 --> 00:02:30,020 with these background colors. 43 00:02:33,780 --> 00:02:43,460 So now I have a blend of these two background colors. 44 00:02:43,760 --> 00:02:46,480 And I'm going to sample right from the middle of this blend. 45 00:02:46,660 --> 00:02:50,780 And it looks like a fairly nice green color, 46 00:02:50,880 --> 00:02:54,580 which is what you would expect from blending a blue and yellow orange together. 47 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:58,320 And I'm going to fill this box with this color. 48 00:02:59,280 --> 00:03:01,140 So I'll sample from the middle of this blend. 49 00:03:02,700 --> 00:03:03,140 Like that. 50 00:03:05,220 --> 00:03:08,360 Now, on the top, I'm going to add two more rectangles. 51 00:03:08,440 --> 00:03:12,160 One here in this rectangle is going to be another orange, 52 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:13,620 a little bit more vibrant. 53 00:03:13,900 --> 00:03:15,660 And on this side, 54 00:03:15,760 --> 00:03:16,360 I'll make a blue. 55 00:03:17,100 --> 00:03:17,940 Make it darker. 56 00:03:19,620 --> 00:03:23,240 Now I'm going to get rid of all of the outlines. 57 00:03:25,540 --> 00:03:32,960 We immediately see that these two colors here and here, 58 00:03:33,700 --> 00:03:34,820 we know that's the same color. 59 00:03:34,940 --> 00:03:36,240 I can move that to the foreground, 60 00:03:36,840 --> 00:03:37,940 and you'll see it's the same color. 61 00:03:38,380 --> 00:03:39,220 Move it to the background. 62 00:03:39,600 --> 00:03:41,360 And on this side, 63 00:03:41,680 --> 00:03:47,660 we see how this rectangle right over here is very light in comparison to this rectangle. 64 00:03:48,240 --> 00:03:50,680 This one looks like a darker muted green. 65 00:03:50,880 --> 00:03:52,460 This one looks like a lighter muted green. 66 00:03:53,680 --> 00:03:54,780 And what's happening here, 67 00:03:54,900 --> 00:03:56,580 just like we described with the colored paper, 68 00:03:57,400 --> 00:03:58,200 is that the background 69 00:03:58,340 --> 00:04:02,340 colors are subtracting themselves from the inset color. 70 00:04:02,540 --> 00:04:04,740 So on the orange side, 71 00:04:05,280 --> 00:04:07,800 the bright colors of the background, 72 00:04:08,120 --> 00:04:09,620 the yellow and the yellow orange, 73 00:04:10,340 --> 00:04:12,860 they're going to subtract their lightness, 74 00:04:13,000 --> 00:04:15,180 make that inside color look darker. 75 00:04:15,740 --> 00:04:17,680 On the blue side, 76 00:04:18,160 --> 00:04:22,580 the blues are going to subtract their darkness and make that inside color look lighter. 77 00:04:23,260 --> 00:04:25,220 So here, the green looks dark. 78 00:04:25,760 --> 00:04:27,060 Here, the green looks light. 79 00:04:28,100 --> 00:04:31,380 They're both relatively desaturated greens. 80 00:04:31,460 --> 00:04:32,840 They're not super vivid greens. 81 00:04:33,500 --> 00:04:36,720 I could make them a super vivid green just to see what it looks like. 82 00:04:38,440 --> 00:04:42,680 And there's a similar effect going on over here. 83 00:04:42,960 --> 00:04:44,040 The green feels light. 84 00:04:44,400 --> 00:04:45,580 Over here, it feels dark. 85 00:04:46,500 --> 00:04:48,420 Let's go back to what we had before, 86 00:04:48,520 --> 00:04:49,320 a little bit more interesting. 87 00:04:50,100 --> 00:04:54,140 Now, if I made this background color even darker, 88 00:04:56,060 --> 00:04:58,520 that green gets even more light. 89 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:01,660 If I made this background lighter, 90 00:05:01,960 --> 00:05:03,580 so go with a really bright yellow. 91 00:05:04,960 --> 00:05:09,380 Now, that green over here looks even more dark. 92 00:05:10,200 --> 00:05:15,880 So this is the phenomenon of simultaneous contrast. 93 00:05:16,600 --> 00:05:19,820 The same color can look different on two different grounds. 94 00:05:19,920 --> 00:05:20,320 And remember, 95 00:05:20,680 --> 00:05:22,880 I'm going to take these two rectangles away. 96 00:05:24,420 --> 00:05:26,760 That's the same exact color. 97 00:05:27,620 --> 00:05:28,700 We put them back. 98 00:05:29,740 --> 00:05:31,240 Very different. 99 00:05:31,920 --> 00:05:33,520 Again, we take them away. 100 00:05:34,900 --> 00:05:37,040 Same exact color. 101 00:05:37,240 --> 00:05:37,980 Put them back. 102 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:39,400 Very different. 103 00:05:40,360 --> 00:05:41,360 Simultaneous contrast. 104 00:05:41,660 --> 00:05:42,840 It's a really beautiful idea. 105 00:05:43,060 --> 00:05:44,160 Very interesting effect. 106 00:05:44,800 --> 00:05:45,500 And we don't need 107 00:05:45,500 --> 00:05:46,580 this band down here anymore. 108 00:05:48,140 --> 00:05:50,420 So five colors can look like six. 109 00:05:51,220 --> 00:05:53,060 Again, this is the same color. 110 00:05:53,320 --> 00:05:54,480 Just bring that to the foreground. 111 00:05:54,880 --> 00:05:55,740 So one, 112 00:05:56,280 --> 00:05:57,820 two background colors, two, 113 00:05:58,280 --> 00:05:58,740 three, 114 00:05:59,060 --> 00:06:00,580 four, and five colors. 115 00:06:02,040 --> 00:06:05,080 Just take these two rectangles and I bring them to the front. 116 00:06:05,300 --> 00:06:08,880 Those five colors now look like six. 117 00:06:09,100 --> 00:06:10,860 One, two, three, four, 118 00:06:11,160 --> 00:06:12,160 five, and six. 119 00:06:13,100 --> 00:06:18,140 This is proof that colors are the most relative medium in art. 120 00:06:18,780 --> 00:06:19,780 They're constantly changing. 121 00:06:19,920 --> 00:06:22,880 They're constantly deceiving us based on their context. 122 00:06:24,580 --> 00:06:27,080 Okay, now I'm going to open up the file 123 00:06:27,080 --> 00:06:29,560 that I started working on earlier. 124 00:06:31,860 --> 00:06:36,380 So now, we're going to try to make three colors look like two. 125 00:06:36,740 --> 00:06:38,220 And I've already begun this experiment. 126 00:06:39,200 --> 00:06:40,620 It's a similar kind of construction, 127 00:06:40,820 --> 00:06:42,620 except instead of having all of those 128 00:06:42,620 --> 00:06:46,200 different rectangles, I've reduced it down now to four rectangles. 129 00:06:46,540 --> 00:06:48,180 Two large rectangles for the background. 130 00:06:49,280 --> 00:06:51,040 Two smaller rectangles for the foreground. 131 00:06:52,160 --> 00:06:53,820 Or what we call inset colors. 132 00:06:55,520 --> 00:06:59,760 Now, I've got a system of colors set up here that are working pretty well. 133 00:07:00,520 --> 00:07:00,820 We have two background colors. 134 00:07:01,280 --> 00:07:04,740 Both of them are slightly desaturated, 135 00:07:05,020 --> 00:07:06,380 which by the way, 136 00:07:06,460 --> 00:07:07,840 tends to work a little bit better 137 00:07:07,840 --> 00:07:10,540 than using fully saturated colors. 138 00:07:10,680 --> 00:07:11,900 It's not impossible to do that, 139 00:07:11,980 --> 00:07:13,640 but it looks a little bit better this way. 140 00:07:14,620 --> 00:07:22,020 I have a gradient at the bottom in which I have the two background colors as parents on either end. 141 00:07:22,840 --> 00:07:25,120 In fact, I've sampled this a little bit farther in. 142 00:07:25,180 --> 00:07:27,840 So let me just sample this from the very end of this gradient. 143 00:07:28,260 --> 00:07:31,540 So there's the fully saturated version of that orange. 144 00:07:33,100 --> 00:07:36,380 There's the fully saturated version of that blue. 145 00:07:37,900 --> 00:07:40,700 And the inset colors, 146 00:07:41,060 --> 00:07:44,060 the smaller rectangles here and here, 147 00:07:44,380 --> 00:07:47,240 are sampled from the middle. 148 00:07:49,500 --> 00:07:52,100 Yeah, now this is always talking about finding the middle color. 149 00:07:53,640 --> 00:07:58,080 So you can see what happens as I sample around through the center of this blend at the bottom. 150 00:07:59,080 --> 00:08:00,840 I'm achieving certain effects. 151 00:08:02,240 --> 00:08:07,420 So this small rectangle against the orange looks dark. 152 00:08:08,000 --> 00:08:09,980 Against the blue, it looks light. 153 00:08:11,540 --> 00:08:13,940 And we're starting to see one other thing happening. 154 00:08:14,200 --> 00:08:18,320 So we're subtracting the lightness and the darkness of the background colors. 155 00:08:19,280 --> 00:08:21,120 We're subtracting their values. 156 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:27,000 But simultaneous contrast also works in terms of subtracting hue. 157 00:08:27,520 --> 00:08:31,940 So we can subtract both value and hue from those inset colors. 158 00:08:32,400 --> 00:08:34,780 So on the orange side, 159 00:08:35,160 --> 00:08:38,220 the orange is subtracting its lightness, 160 00:08:38,500 --> 00:08:40,060 making the inside color look darker. 161 00:08:41,280 --> 00:08:45,260 On the blue side, the blue is subtracting its darkness, 162 00:08:45,520 --> 00:08:47,000 making the inside color look lighter. 163 00:08:48,160 --> 00:08:51,980 Again, if you stare sort of at the center area up here at the top, 164 00:08:52,680 --> 00:08:54,720 the illusion becomes even more prominent. 165 00:08:55,960 --> 00:08:59,000 Now we see that this orange, 166 00:08:59,340 --> 00:09:03,340 not only subtracting its lightness, it's also subtracting its orangeness. 167 00:09:03,860 --> 00:09:05,060 It's subtracting its hue. 168 00:09:05,880 --> 00:09:10,860 And it's making this small rectangle in the middle actually look a little bit blue. 169 00:09:11,880 --> 00:09:15,340 It's subtracting itself, its lightness and its orangeness, 170 00:09:15,420 --> 00:09:19,340 making it look darker and making it look more like its complement. 171 00:09:20,240 --> 00:09:21,560 The complement of orange is blue. 172 00:09:22,140 --> 00:09:22,620 Therefore, 173 00:09:23,320 --> 00:09:26,460 you're subtracting orange, making the inside color look more blue. 174 00:09:27,740 --> 00:09:28,900 Against the blue ground, 175 00:09:29,680 --> 00:09:31,440 the small rectangle looks lighter. 176 00:09:32,660 --> 00:09:34,300 And if you stare long enough, 177 00:09:34,740 --> 00:09:36,720 in this case, it's a little bit hard, 178 00:09:36,820 --> 00:09:40,940 but you can kind of start to see how this square is starting to look a little bit orange. 179 00:09:41,380 --> 00:09:45,180 And you have to stare a while for this to happen. 180 00:09:45,940 --> 00:09:48,060 But I can make that effect even more dramatic. 181 00:09:49,080 --> 00:09:50,880 And Elber's calls this pushing the ground. 182 00:09:52,000 --> 00:09:56,000 So in order to make this inside color look more like this background, 183 00:09:56,720 --> 00:09:58,080 what I need to 184 00:09:58,080 --> 00:10:00,800 do is select the background. 185 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:06,280 And I'm going to now sample from a little bit closer to the center of this blend. 186 00:10:06,560 --> 00:10:09,800 And as I sample closer to the middle, 187 00:10:10,640 --> 00:10:13,900 what's happening is that this inside color is starting 188 00:10:13,900 --> 00:10:15,520 to look a little bit more like this background, 189 00:10:15,880 --> 00:10:17,100 or vice versa. 190 00:10:17,540 --> 00:10:20,180 The background is starting to look a little bit more like this inset color. 191 00:10:21,820 --> 00:10:23,600 I can do the same thing on the blue side. 192 00:10:24,500 --> 00:10:28,240 Since this inset color on the orange is pretty dull, 193 00:10:28,620 --> 00:10:30,920 I can sample a little bit closer to 194 00:10:30,920 --> 00:10:37,300 the center of the blue spectrum and increase the dullness of that background to make it 195 00:10:37,300 --> 00:10:38,680 look more like the inset color. 196 00:10:39,860 --> 00:10:43,720 So now if we stare up here at the middle area, 197 00:10:44,220 --> 00:10:46,760 we can see that this inset square, 198 00:10:47,000 --> 00:10:48,380 this inset rectangle here, 199 00:10:49,060 --> 00:10:49,860 looks bluish, 200 00:10:50,420 --> 00:10:50,840 dark. 201 00:10:51,420 --> 00:10:52,420 On this side, 202 00:10:52,780 --> 00:10:56,060 the inset looks lighter and starting to look a little bit more orange. 203 00:10:56,200 --> 00:10:58,720 So the key to this, 204 00:10:59,000 --> 00:11:01,620 making three colors look like two, again, one, 205 00:11:01,980 --> 00:11:02,280 two, 206 00:11:02,720 --> 00:11:04,500 and we know that these are the same colors. 207 00:11:05,040 --> 00:11:06,620 If you want to prove that, 208 00:11:06,680 --> 00:11:07,660 it's pretty easy to do. 209 00:11:08,020 --> 00:11:09,200 You just make the connection. 210 00:11:10,020 --> 00:11:12,860 You can take this and just take that. 211 00:11:13,820 --> 00:11:15,000 Bring it all the way over. 212 00:11:16,080 --> 00:11:18,040 You see that's the same exact color. 213 00:11:18,440 --> 00:11:22,780 Now we really see the illusion happening. 214 00:11:23,420 --> 00:11:27,860 So you can try this and you can try it with any pairs of colors that you want. 215 00:11:27,960 --> 00:11:29,320 Try complementary colors. 216 00:11:30,300 --> 00:11:35,080 You can do similar to what we did with the paper where we used grays, we used monochromatics. 217 00:11:35,960 --> 00:11:36,800 It's the same illusion, 218 00:11:37,020 --> 00:11:37,760 same idea. 219 00:11:37,920 --> 00:11:40,920 It's going to be prevalent in both experiments, 220 00:11:41,080 --> 00:11:42,680 any kind of experiment where you're using 221 00:11:43,020 --> 00:11:43,680 contrasting colors. 222 00:11:44,160 --> 00:11:46,000 It really works well with complements. 223 00:11:46,200 --> 00:11:47,780 You really get a dramatic change. 224 00:11:49,040 --> 00:11:49,800 Pretty interesting. 225 00:11:50,520 --> 00:11:51,740 Let's try red and green. 226 00:11:52,360 --> 00:11:53,340 It should be kind of interesting. 227 00:11:54,400 --> 00:11:59,340 So I'm just going to go in and put in a very intense red down here. 228 00:12:00,240 --> 00:12:00,680 Dramatic, 229 00:12:01,040 --> 00:12:01,360 right? 230 00:12:01,680 --> 00:12:02,580 Same thing on the green. 231 00:12:03,900 --> 00:12:05,200 Dramatic green color. 232 00:12:05,560 --> 00:12:10,840 And now I'm going to make a blend and sample those two colors. 233 00:12:12,780 --> 00:12:23,580 And right in the middle, 234 00:12:23,680 --> 00:12:24,860 we have this very dark color. 235 00:12:24,980 --> 00:12:26,720 So let's just see what happens if I take 236 00:12:27,320 --> 00:12:29,920 these and I sample that from the center. 237 00:12:30,720 --> 00:12:31,740 And Albert Zell always says, 238 00:12:31,900 --> 00:12:32,620 find the middle color. 239 00:12:32,880 --> 00:12:35,360 In other words, sample from the middle of the blend. 240 00:12:36,680 --> 00:12:42,040 Now, because these two background colors are about the same value, 241 00:12:42,340 --> 00:12:44,220 we're not subtracting any value. 242 00:12:44,420 --> 00:12:47,160 So the lightness and the darkness doesn't really change very much. 243 00:12:47,820 --> 00:12:49,560 And we can see a subtle change. 244 00:12:50,320 --> 00:12:53,220 How this square, this rectangle against the red, 245 00:12:53,300 --> 00:12:57,160 looks a little bit different than the rectangle against the green. 246 00:12:57,460 --> 00:13:00,920 You can see how the rectangle against the green, 247 00:13:01,100 --> 00:13:03,220 that brown, is a little bit more reddish, 248 00:13:03,540 --> 00:13:04,500 a little bit lighter. 249 00:13:05,500 --> 00:13:07,520 The rectangle on the red side, 250 00:13:08,180 --> 00:13:09,000 definitely darker, 251 00:13:09,400 --> 00:13:10,200 a little bit darker, 252 00:13:10,420 --> 00:13:11,340 not a whole lot darker. 253 00:13:12,300 --> 00:13:13,580 And it's a little bit greener, too. 254 00:13:14,180 --> 00:13:15,100 It's kind of interesting. 255 00:13:16,640 --> 00:13:23,000 So now let's see what happens if I take this red down a bit and try, say, 256 00:13:23,320 --> 00:13:24,900 sampling in a slightly different way. 257 00:13:25,460 --> 00:13:30,620 Reduce the darkness. 258 00:13:31,420 --> 00:13:34,620 Also reduce the saturation slightly. 259 00:13:35,920 --> 00:13:38,080 Same thing on the green side. 260 00:13:38,460 --> 00:13:39,820 Let's take that saturation down. 261 00:13:43,100 --> 00:13:44,580 That's super saturated. 262 00:13:44,820 --> 00:13:44,960 OK. 263 00:13:45,960 --> 00:13:46,920 Keep the darkness. 264 00:13:47,960 --> 00:13:49,380 Let's reduce the saturation. 265 00:13:49,760 --> 00:13:56,540 Now let's sample these colors and basically bring them down into the gradient. 266 00:13:59,400 --> 00:14:09,860 And we can see that the blend has changed dramatically. 267 00:14:10,020 --> 00:14:11,920 And the middle of the blend actually looks pretty gray. 268 00:14:12,040 --> 00:14:12,360 So this should work. 269 00:14:12,420 --> 00:14:14,920 See what happens. 270 00:14:15,020 --> 00:14:16,680 Again, these are complementary colors. 271 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:19,940 If I sample from the middle of the blend, 272 00:14:20,720 --> 00:14:22,260 I should get a pretty neutral gray, 273 00:14:23,020 --> 00:14:24,340 a little bit brown. 274 00:14:24,920 --> 00:14:32,540 So I'm going to try cooling off the green just a little bit. 275 00:14:37,040 --> 00:14:45,240 Now sample in the center. 276 00:14:46,680 --> 00:14:48,680 So it's more of a blue-green, actually, 277 00:14:49,160 --> 00:14:50,120 which is kind of interesting. 278 00:14:51,100 --> 00:14:53,240 And now let's see what happens to this inside color. 279 00:14:53,280 --> 00:14:55,020 When I sample from the middle of the blend. 280 00:14:55,620 --> 00:14:57,500 Again, Albers always talks about trial and error. 281 00:14:57,680 --> 00:14:59,200 This is such a matter of trial and error. 282 00:15:02,020 --> 00:15:03,520 I'm going to try one more thing. 283 00:15:05,020 --> 00:15:08,120 I'm going to make the green lighter and see what happens. 284 00:15:11,740 --> 00:15:16,940 Keep it fairly desaturated. 285 00:15:23,240 --> 00:15:24,780 Try to blend the same color. 286 00:15:27,060 --> 00:15:39,200 Now I've got two different colors, 287 00:15:39,320 --> 00:15:40,600 complementary colors in the background. 288 00:15:42,460 --> 00:15:44,700 Go down and sample the blend down here. 289 00:15:47,000 --> 00:15:48,560 That's a fairly neutral gray. 290 00:15:49,860 --> 00:15:51,960 So now we're going to stare at this a little while again. 291 00:15:51,960 --> 00:15:55,720 You have to stare at it for a while in order to see the illusion take place. 292 00:15:57,120 --> 00:16:01,340 If we stare right up here at the top where the red and the green intersect, 293 00:16:02,720 --> 00:16:06,500 see how this rectangle is really starting to look very green. 294 00:16:07,140 --> 00:16:09,080 And this rectangle over here 295 00:16:09,080 --> 00:16:10,900 is starting to look more red. 296 00:16:11,740 --> 00:16:14,480 It's not quite approaching the vividness of this background, 297 00:16:15,300 --> 00:16:16,480 but it's getting close. 298 00:16:17,000 --> 00:16:18,340 Same thing on this side. 299 00:16:18,440 --> 00:16:19,220 It's very, very close. 300 00:16:19,660 --> 00:16:25,120 So let's see what happens when we sample this a little bit closer to the center of the blend. 301 00:16:26,580 --> 00:16:29,020 So now it's very intense. 302 00:16:30,200 --> 00:16:32,400 I'm desaturating that background. 303 00:16:33,840 --> 00:16:35,880 And still the goal is to try to make 304 00:16:35,880 --> 00:16:39,320 this color look like that ground and this color looks like that ground. 305 00:16:40,420 --> 00:16:41,400 And when I look at it 306 00:16:41,860 --> 00:16:41,980 individually, 307 00:16:42,620 --> 00:16:45,740 it looks green on this side and red on this side. 308 00:16:49,180 --> 00:16:51,400 Just continue experimenting a little bit. 309 00:16:55,440 --> 00:16:58,200 Make this background a little bit lighter. 310 00:17:11,460 --> 00:17:14,560 Keep the vividness of this. 311 00:17:18,920 --> 00:17:27,520 Sample that new green. 312 00:17:27,940 --> 00:17:29,120 Bring that into the gradient. 313 00:17:33,700 --> 00:17:38,260 Resample the inside. 314 00:17:38,680 --> 00:17:41,940 Still working pretty well. 315 00:17:44,520 --> 00:17:50,440 Desaturate this background just a little bit. 316 00:17:54,160 --> 00:18:02,640 So the goal here is to make this color look more green, 317 00:18:02,800 --> 00:18:03,880 this color look more red. 318 00:18:04,380 --> 00:18:06,940 Again, the longer you stare up here, 319 00:18:07,320 --> 00:18:09,220 the more intense the illusion becomes. 320 00:18:10,640 --> 00:18:13,560 So this is an experiment you can try on your own. 321 00:18:13,800 --> 00:18:16,200 Again, try working with monochromatic colors. 322 00:18:16,480 --> 00:18:17,860 Try working with gray colors. 323 00:18:18,320 --> 00:18:20,960 Gray is the easiest because you don't have to subtract any hue. 324 00:18:21,080 --> 00:18:22,320 You're just subtracting value. 325 00:18:23,780 --> 00:18:25,540 Complementary colors work really well. 326 00:18:25,880 --> 00:18:27,900 Analogous colors sometimes work really well. 327 00:18:29,460 --> 00:18:31,280 But let's move on to the next experiment. 328 00:18:31,520 --> 00:18:35,380 And here we're going to try to make four colors look like three. 329 00:18:35,760 --> 00:18:36,860 This should be pretty interesting. 330 00:18:38,300 --> 00:18:40,780 Let me save this one before I go on. 331 00:18:45,020 --> 00:18:50,200 Always good to save your work.