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Full Module Title:
INTRODUCTION TO COLOUR
Short Module Title: COLOUR INTRODUCTION
Module Code: 2DPI514 Module Level: 5
Academic credit weighting: 15 credits.
Length: 1 semester
School:
Media, Art and Design.
Department:
Photographic and Digital Media
Module Leader: Sophie Triantaphillidou Extension: 4584
Host Course:
BSc (Hons) Photography and Digital Imaging
Status:
Core
Pre-requisites:
None.
Co-requisites:
None.
Assessment: Practical work 75%, coursework 25%.
Summary of Module content:
The fundamentals of colour vision, perceptual attributes of colour and colour matching will be
introduced. Methods of producing and measuring light, radiometric and photometric units. Basic
colourimetry and chomaticity diagrams. Colour spaces and colour gamuts. Colour films and
papers. Colour sensitometry, film, paper, scanner and displays and printers.
Module Aims:
• To provide an understanding of the fundamental principles of colour vision and colour
matching.
• To introduce radiometric and photometric units and their measurement.
• To develop practical skill in colour measurement and evaluation of analogue and digital
imaging systems.
• To analyse and present results and conclusions from an investigation, with due regard of
experimental error, procedural assumptions and other necessary practical simplifications.
Learning Outcomes:
On completion of the module the successful student will be able to:
1. Define radiometric and photometric units and know how to measure them.
2. Define colour, describe its measurements and communicate results.
3. Assess sensitometric colour performance of imaging systems.
4. Explain the difference between device dependent, calibrated and device independent colour
spaces CIELAB.
5. Report and communicate on experimental results.
Indicative syllabus content:
• Human colour vision and colour matching: The human visual system, anomalous colour
vision, adaptation, spatial induction effects, colour matching experiments.
• Light sources, properties, radiometry and photometry: Methods for producing light, light
sources and their properties, CIE standard illuminants, geometries of illumination and viewing,
spectroradiometers and spectrophotometers, radiometric and photometric units.
• The specification of colour: Colorimetry, tristimulus values, chromaticity diagrams and CIE
colour spaces.
• Colour reproduction of film media: Dyes and pigments, sensitometry of colour photography.
• Colour spaces and digital imaging: Digital colour spaces. Advantages and limitations of
device-dependent (RGB, CMYK), calibrated (sRGB, Adobe RGB) and device-independent
colour spaces (CIELAB, XYZ system) used in the digital domain.
• Digital colour sensitometry: Colour transfer characteristics of scanners, digital cameras,
displays and printers.
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