| Luminence/Chrominance models vary the properties of colors instead of mixing the colors themselves to create colors. |
| In HSV (Hue, Saturation, Value (sometimes Brightness)), the hue is the actual color, the saturation is the amount of white in the hue (full saturation at 100% has no white), and value is the amount of self-luminescence. |
| In YUV, or YCrCb, the Y component is the luminance, and Cr and Cb are the color (chrominance) in amounts of redness and blueness. |
| These models pay more attention to the way that the human eye sees color, namely, that the eye is quite sensitive to changes in brightness, but much less sensitive to changes in color. |