How HSV is related to RGB?

by Light · Published September 12, 2020 · Updated September 12, 2020

Have you ever wondered how HSV/HSB is related to RGB? Instead of going all mathy on everyone, everyone can understand the relationship visually. Well you are in for a revelation in your color understanding.

this should make a lot of sense after watching that video

But wait, you can also understand the relationship via this Twitter thread.

🎨grey colors always have all 3 RGB values the same. And therefore dull. pic.twitter.com/W3dEVkCAbF
— Lightbwk (@Lightbwk) September 8, 2020

🎨Value in HSV is keeping the same ratio for all RGB channels. Meaning the brighter value has the same RGB ratio to darker value.

Note: darken is dimming the 3 RGB lamps but keeping their ratio the same. pic.twitter.com/wjIGoalwkD
— Lightbwk (@Lightbwk) September 8, 2020

🎨cont'
meaning at zero sat, the RGB for this color will be… pic.twitter.com/YIZlWPtOTM
— Lightbwk (@Lightbwk) September 8, 2020

🎨When we lower saturation a bit, all 3 channels are not zero. And this is a key to warm/cool a color. And this knowledge is super powerful. pic.twitter.com/Dndrk9j0zp
— Lightbwk (@Lightbwk) September 8, 2020

How about HSL relationship to RGB? That is for another day and another post.

How HSV is related to RGB?

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