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What color to combine to get yellow color?

> no yellow is a primary color.no need of mix. > You can't mix anything to get yellow; because yellow is a primary color. First you have to ask whether you are dealing with ADDITIVE colors or SUBTRACTIVE colors. ADDITIVE colors are like colored lights. SUBTRACTIVE colors are like paint. For additive colors, you can make yellow from adding red and green light. Or yellow, being a "spectral" color, means that light of a pure certain wavelength, around 570nm, is itself yellow. For subtractive colors, yellow indeed is a primary, and is the reason that the inks coming from most color printers are NOT red, green or blue, but rather cyan, magenta and yellow (and sometimes black). These are the SUBTRACTIVE primaries. The additive primaries are red, green and blue, which is why LCD screens have RGB pixels (which emit light).


What colour light would you get if you mixed magenta and green light?

Green light is one of the additive primaries, meaning it's one of the three basic colors in light that make up all other colors. Magenta light is made up of the other two additive primaries, blue and red. Therefore if you balanced the two lights in the right proportions, you would in essence be combining all three additive primary colors, resulting in the full spectrum, or white light. Since it's very difficult to get perfectly balanced colors, your actual results would most likely be skewed one way or the other.


What is the difference between mixing colored lights and mixing pigments?

biggest difference is that in light- the primary colors are red blue and green. Whereas in paint pigments its red blue and yellow


What particles are found in the chemicals that maybe responsible for the production of colored lights?

Photons


What are the primary and secondary colors of lights and pigments?

Three primary colors: red yellow blue Three secondary colors: violet green orange All tertiary colors are a combo of two of the above.

Related questions

When you mix colored lights you blank colors until you get white?

When you mix colored lights you add colors until you get white.


What is a mixture of colored lights called?

Composite light


Why are some primary colors called additive?

Some primary colors, such as red, green, and blue, are called additive because they are used in additive color mixing. In additive color mixing, different combinations of these primary colors are added together to produce various colors. For example, adding red and blue light together creates magenta, green and blue light creates cyan, and all three primary colors combined create white light. This is the basis for how colors are produced on electronic screens and displays.


How do screens work?

millions of tiny colored lights inside of the screen make up a picture... the lights change colors to make the picture move.


What color to combine to get yellow color?

> no yellow is a primary color.no need of mix. > You can't mix anything to get yellow; because yellow is a primary color. First you have to ask whether you are dealing with ADDITIVE colors or SUBTRACTIVE colors. ADDITIVE colors are like colored lights. SUBTRACTIVE colors are like paint. For additive colors, you can make yellow from adding red and green light. Or yellow, being a "spectral" color, means that light of a pure certain wavelength, around 570nm, is itself yellow. For subtractive colors, yellow indeed is a primary, and is the reason that the inks coming from most color printers are NOT red, green or blue, but rather cyan, magenta and yellow (and sometimes black). These are the SUBTRACTIVE primaries. The additive primaries are red, green and blue, which is why LCD screens have RGB pixels (which emit light).


Where can one find colored lights online?

The LightInTheBox, LampsPlus, and LightingUniverse websites all sell colored lights online. Amazon and eBay also have colored lights for sale online.


Distinguish between additive and subtractive color mixing processes?

The additive color process is mixing lights while the subtractive color process is mixing paints and dyes. In the additive color process when you mix all of the main colors together: red, green, and blue: you get white(hence the name additive) while if you do the exact same thing in the subtractive color process: cyan, magenta, and yellow: you get black(hence the name subtractive because in order to get white you'd have to take away all of the colors).


What are the main colors?

It depends on whether you are talking light or paint/dye, the main colours are called the Primary ColoursPrimary colors are sets of colors that can be combined to make a useful range of colors. For human applications, three are often used; for additive combination of colors, as in overlapping projected lights or in CRT displays, the primary colors normally used are red, green, and blue. For subtractive combination of colors, as in mixing of pigments or dyes, such as in printing, the primaries normally used are cyan, magenta, and yellow (or blue, red and yellow)


What colors can make a primary color?

No colors can make primary colors. There are two sets of primary colors for mixing different kinds of color. For mixing colored lights together, the primary colors are red, green, and blue. For mixing colored pigments or dyes together, the primary colors are magenta, yellow, and cyan (turquoise). Each of these sets of primary colors are the secondary colors of the other mixing system. The primary colors are: red, yellow, and blue. These were the colors the art masters of old used, and are still used today for mixing paint.


Do satellites have blinking colored lights?

No


What colour light would you get if you mixed magenta and green light?

Green light is one of the additive primaries, meaning it's one of the three basic colors in light that make up all other colors. Magenta light is made up of the other two additive primaries, blue and red. Therefore if you balanced the two lights in the right proportions, you would in essence be combining all three additive primary colors, resulting in the full spectrum, or white light. Since it's very difficult to get perfectly balanced colors, your actual results would most likely be skewed one way or the other.


Why do objects appear different colors when seen under different colored lights?

Because the reflection of the light up above the shape is seen on the shape. Making it look that colour.