Wispy rainbow clouds in spectral colors.
Wispy rainbow clouds in spectral colors.

Designing scintillating rainbow elements

How to capture the fluorescence in its absolute beauty

Eva Schicker
3 min readDec 9, 2021

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Rainbow: A semi-circle or arc of colors visible in the sky, rendered by the refraction of the sun’s light by rain or water droplets in the atmosphere. The colors of the rainbow are generally said to be red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo, and violet.

A rainbow is the gift of the universe. It happens in a flash, and is gone just as quickly. It might appear after the rain has stopped, or as a seemingly airborne effect wherever the sun is reflected on droplets or mist.

Rainbow colors

Rainbow colors are sometimes called prismatic colors. They always appear in the same spectral order.

ROYGBIV is the acronym for the sequence of hues commonly described as making up a rainbow: red, orange, yellow, green, blue, indigo and violet.

We can compose a rainbow-colored shape based on the ROYGBIV spectral colors.

The spectrum of ubiquitously recognized rainbow colors, also known as ROYGBIV.
The spectrum of ubiquitously recognized rainbow colors, also known as ROYGBIV.

How to set up a rainbow effect in Photoshop

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Eva Schicker
Eva Schicker

Written by Eva Schicker

Hello. I write about UX, UI, AI, animation, tech, fiction, art, & travel through the eyes of a designer & painter. I live in NYC. Author of Princess Lailya.

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