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    The document compares the additive RGB color model used for digital screens to the subtractive CMYK color model used for printing. The RGB model uses combinations of red, green, and blue light to create colors and black is the absence of light. The CMYK model uses cyan, magenta, yellow, and black inks to absorb colors and white is the base, near black is all colors combined. Graphics for screens should use RGB while those for print should use CMYK due to their different color reproduction methods.

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    Primary colors of light and pigment

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    Primary colors

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    The document compares the additive RGB color model used for digital screens to the subtractive CMYK color model used for printing. The RGB model uses combinations of red, green, and blue light to create colors and black is the absence of light. The CMYK model uses cyan, magenta, yellow, and black inks to absorb colors and white is the base, near black is all colors combined. Graphics for screens should use RGB while those for print should use CMYK due to their different color reproduction methods.

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    Primary Colors

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    Liza Mambiar
    The document compares the additive RGB color model used for digital screens to the subtractive CMYK color model used for printing. The RGB model uses combinations of red, green, and blue light to create colors and black is the absence of light. The CMYK model uses cyan, magenta, yellow, and black inks to absorb colors and white is the base, near black is all colors combined. Graphics for screens should use RGB while those for print should use CMYK due to their different color reproduction methods.

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    Yellow Red/Orange

    Green Red Yellow Magenta

    Cyan Magenta Green Blue/Violet

    Blue Cyan

    Additive Color Model Subrtactive Color Model


    (light, RGB) (pigment, CMYK)
    Color is transmitted through transparent media. Color is absorbed by and reflected off of media.
    All colors added together = white. Because these colors are achieved via reflection, we assume a
    The absence of light = true black. pure white ground as the base filter for pure colors.
    Because computer graphics, websites, and other digital presen- All colors added together = near black.
    tations are projected/transmitted with light, screen-targeted To achieve true black, pure black must be added,
    graphics should be saved in this color model, or “RGB Mode.” thus giving us the CMYK model (K=black). This is the standard
    color model for most printing, thus graphics for print are typically
    prepared in “CMYK Mode.”
    NOTICE: The colors in RGB appear slightly more brilliant
    than in CMYK. This can be attributed to the difference While most printers recognize this model as the standard pig-
    between the mode of transmitting light vs. ment model, the traditional artist Color Wheel substitutes Blue as
    absorbing/reflecting light off of surfaces. the Cyan primary and Red as the Magenta primary, resulting in
    slightly different secondary and tertiary results.

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