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Additive Color Mixing

These are the primary colors of LIGHT. When they are mixed together, the resulting color is

WHITE.

Color Wheel for Light

White

Red

Magenta

Blue

Cyan

Green

Yellow

SUBTRACTIVE COLOR MIXINGThese are the primary colors of PIGMENT.

When they are mixed together, the resulting color is BLACK.

A pigment is a material that changes the color of reflected light by absorbing

select wavelengths of light. Many materials selectively absorb certain wavelengths of light. Materials that humans have chosen

and developed for use as pigments usually have special properties that make them

ideal for coloring other materials.

Red Filter

Subtractive Color Mixing

Magenta Filter(Blue+Red)

Cyan Filter(Blue+Green)

= No Light!

When colored light hits a white surface, it reflects that color. When color hits a colored surface it modifies that color. A colored surface absorbs all other color and reflects its own color. An actor wearing a blue costume lit by white light absorbs the red and green wavelengths and reflects the blue

So here's what you need to know...

• The three primary colors of light are red, blue and green

• When the three primary colors combine, they make white

• Two primary colors combine to make a secondary color, and a secondary color combines with a primary color to make a tertiary colors.

• Complimentary colors are colors that are located across from each other on the color wheel and, when combined, they make white light.

• Light is made up of wavelengths.

• Additive color mixing is the combination of different colors of light.

• Subtractive color mixing occurs when certain colors of the spectrum of light are absorbed by a filter and others pass through a filter.