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What is the importance of additive and subtractive to photography?
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∙ 11y ago
Additive and subtractive are colour theories. Subtractive theory means when we add Primary colours (red, Blue, Yellow) we get black. But in Additivee colour theory primary colours are red, green and blue. Mixing those we get white light. The aditive colour theory is used in Photography and primary colours are also red, Green and Blue (RGB)
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