Color Spaces
RGB: Red Green Blue
- Additive color
- CRT displays
YCrCb: Luminance Chrominance
- Decouples intensity and color information
- Digital image/video compression standards (digital TV)
- Eye less sensitive to chrominance than luminance: subsample Cr/Cb without significant visual degradation
CMY(K): Cyan Magenta Yellow (Black)
- Subtractive color
- Printing and photography
- Black ink used for improved color gamut, and faster drying and purer rendering for black and greys