4. Tone

In this final article looking at the fundamental elements of colour, we come to our third and final dimension: tone. Tonal value describes the light or dark of a colour.

Convert a colour photograph to monochrome and you are effectively removing the hue and saturation (explored in the previous two articles) to leave only the tonal expression behind. In fact, we see very little true white or black around us, so, when we strip the hue and saturation from a subject, we are presented with a patchwork of various shades of grey.

This has some benefits. The less saturated