COLOR MIXING METHODS

Most colors can be matched by suitable mixtures of a set of three primary colors. The actual
primaries chosen affect the range and accuracy of possible matching but all hues, with the exception
of a few of high purity or fully saturated, can be reconstructed.

Additive color mixing

For colored light, where the sensation of one color adds to another to produce a new color light
mixture. The light primaries invariably used are red, green, and blue.
In additive color mixing method
Red + Green = yellow
Red + Blue = Magenta
Green + Blue = Turquoise

Additive color mixing (with filtered lights)

Because the lights are added together to give more energy and brighter color, this type of color
mixing is called additive mixing.

Subtractive Color Mixing

This takes place whenever the resultant color affect arises from selective absorption processes. When
light impinges on the surface the eye sees only the remaining light reflected, after this subtraction
process. This is so whether the surface color is painted, dyed, inked or pigmented. If there is equal
absorption over the whole spectrum results in graying to different degrees. In subtractive mixing,
when pigments of differ ring hues are mixed they each absorb their respective parts of the spectrum
from the incident light.

 Primary Colors: - Primary colors are red, blue, and yellow. They
cannot be obtained by mixing other hues but, if combined in the proper
amounts, will produce nearly every other known hue.

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 Secondary Colors: - Secondary colors are green, orange, and
violet. Each stands midway between the two primaries that produce
it when mixed in the right amounts. Green comes from blue and
yellow, orange from red and yellow, and violet from red and blue.

 Tertiary Colors: - Tertiary colors stands between a primary and a secondary colors and
result from a mixture of the two. Their names yellow - green, blue - violet and red orange
indicates their components.

Subtractive color mixing (with colored sheets of plastic)

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In subtractive mixing the primary colors are red, blue, and yellow. Red + Blue = violet, Red +
Yellow = Orange, Blue + yellow = Green.

Because each individual pigments subtract some of the wavelengths and some of the light energy
from the light falling on the mixture, this type of color mixing is called subtractive mixing.
Partitive Color Mixing
The process of placing colors side by side, to produce different color effects.

Optical Color Mixing

A color phenomenon based on color fusing that occurs in eye/brain interaction. A new color is created
when colors are optically fused.