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Magenta is secondary color (because it is a combination of 2 primaries, red and blue) and is one of the 3 colors used in the subtractive color system (yellow and cyan being the other 2). A fundamental rule of filters is that they pass their own color and hold back their complementary color. When printing color negatives, adding magenta filtration will therefore decrease the complementary color green in the resulting print. You could say that if a print is "too green", you add more of the complementary color to the filtration (magenta), too red, add cyan, and so on.

For prints made from color slides, the approach is the opposite. For black and white using variable contrast paper, magenta is at the strong end of the possible filter selections that will raise the contrast level of the print.

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