Black & White color values

What are the best color values for Black and White objects (instead of 0-0-0 and 255-255-255), so as to have shades of each left over for highlighting and shadows falling on them?

Thanks for any tips!

Hi Rus,

Do you mean like a tooth, whitish, but still able to have a whiter highlight? I don't know ;-)

I think you've got to decide what sort of lighting you want in your environment and work from there. Ideally, go into a paint package draw a purple shape and put a white highlight on it. You can then change the purple with a fill to any colour you want until you get in the right sort of area.

Not much of a reply, but I hope it helps,

Later,

Jes

It depends on your AmbientLight. I'd reccomend to use Ambientlight 127,127,127 and then use 255-255-255 for white and 127-127-127 for "black" but I guess you have to find that black value experimentally. But wihte can be 255 - it will only be full white when a light is shining directly onto it (when ambientlight is lowered).

RGB colour chart

unfortunately Brice removed his legendary colour chart from this thread (twice already).... this is what he does when he gets in a huff .... but there are still some crumbs left behind which maybe some help, if not, tough

Here's a colour Picker I put in the code Archives you click around and it puts the RGB in the debug log.

To create any shade of gray, just make all three RGB values equal. However, nothing in the real world is 100% black or 100% white (or, for that matter, 100% red etc.) so avoid extremes. I tend to make my whites in the 240 range and blacks closer to 10. If you want to make a white appear even "brighter", try turning up the blue just one or two points higher than the others.

Dr Av m8, I assume that you have some medical qualifications or at least a first aid certificate right? what do I do about a veruca that is stubbornly refusing to shift? it has resisted corn pads, TCP and a lighter turned up FULL BLAST after I'd had 3 scotches too many