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Additive and subtractive colour

Lesson 9 of 27 in Colour.

Color Models Explained (Additive & Subtractive) | Digital Color · The Visual Center
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Two opposite physical situations that both get called colour. Additive en.wikipedia.org is light being emitted and combined, which is what a screen does. Subtractive en.wikipedia.org is light being absorbed by something and whatever bounces back is the colour you see, which is what ink does.

light adds up to whiteink does the opposite: it subtracts
Red, green and blue light overlapping to make white.
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  1. Question 1, locked

    A screen makes white by doing what?

    • Adding red, green and blue light together at full strength
    • Removing cyan, magenta and yellow from a white ground
    • Mixing every colour in the spectrum until they cancel
  2. Question 2, locked

    Which of these words means this? “Colour made by adding light. Screens. All of it together is white.”

    • Anchor
    • Additive
    • AAA
    • Countershading
  3. Question 3, locked

    Which of these words means this? “Colour made by taking light away with pigment. Ink and paint. All of it together is near-black.”

    • Structural colour
    • Subtractive
    • Banding
    • Triadic

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