Re: The wearing o' the orange

"David Harmon" <source@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
> On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 22:50:59 GMT in rec.arts.sf.fandom, "Karl
> Johanson" <karljohanson@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote,
>>As a colour challenged person I'm curious what a "neutral shade" is.
>
> Low saturation.  Well away from the additive primaries red, green,
> and blue, as well as the subtractive primaries magenta, yellow, and
> cyan.

Ah, I understand. Thank you.

>>But brown is clearly a colour.
>
> Basically gray with a tinge of orange.

Interesting. I would have mixed magenta, yellow and cyan (subtractive) 
for brown. I usually have trouble figuring out how one would create 
brown in Photoshop. I just tried making orange (R255, G150, B0) then 
'greying' it by lowering the saturation, then darkening it a bit. I 
found a colour (R120, G 89, B45) which looks brown to me & which others 
said was brownish. Thanks!

Karl Johanson