Colour Space

Colour Space

Colour space is a defined range of colours, such as SRGB. AdobeRGB and ProPhoto RGB.

Greyscale is the most simple colour space. Greyscale consists only of different shades of grey, therefore displays images in black and white. Greyscale is the most simple colour space.

RGB: (Red Green Blue) is used in all televisions, monitors, and screens in general to display images in colour. 

YUV: The Y stands for the brightness, U and V stand for colour components. YUV was created by engineers when creating colour televisions, to display black and white picture, but also to be compatible with brand new colour picture also. 

HSV: This stands for 'Hue, saturation, value' Hue is a pure colour, a colour that isn't tinted or shaded. Saturation is determined by how intense the lighting within an image is, the higher the saturation, the brighter the image. The value of an image is how bright or dark the image appears.