Soo submitted the following for extra credit. A reaction to Cheating Color by Jason Santa Maria.
I used to think that colors are colors, when you use red, blue, or green on aWhite piece of paper aren’t those colors still red, blue, and green even though you use a different colored back round paper. Isn’t it the same no matter how you use them? I never knew that cheating color would make that much of a difference until I read the article “24 ways to impress your friends” on cheating color by Jason Santa Maria. It explains the different ways to cheat colors just by changing the lightness or darkness of them by fragments and keeping it with in the same realm of colors. Colors also drastically change when using a darker back round. When using a color on a light back round the colors appears to be lighter and when you add the same color that was just used on a white back round to a dark back round it appears to be darker.
So, in order for the colors that you use to appear the same weather on a light or dark back round you must cheat. This is very impressive, although in reality you change the color scheme ever so slightly it does not change visually. I personally will keep this in mind for the future the next time I am working on a project either for myself or a commercial business. With out cheating colors a person’s visual view could be affected and notice the difference in the change of color, there for ruining the optical effect a person was trying to achieve in their work. I have learned a lot about cheating different colors in this article and how it could affect the out come of a persons work.
This has helped me better my performance dramatically and hopefully others as well. This is a very good observation by Jason Santa Maria and if it were not for him writing this article I would have never known about this very neat trick as I would like to call it. He explains himself very well and his article is very easy to understand especially with the diagrams that he has provided for visual purposes only. His article has influenced me to be more creative and to pay more attention to detail.