Subtractive Primary Colors Puns

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The complementary colors (cyan, yellow, and magenta) are also commonly referred to as the primary subtractive colors because each can be formed by subtracting one of the primary additives (red, green, and blue) from white light.

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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subtractive_color

In color printing, the usual primary colors are cyan, magenta and yellow (CMY). Cyan is the complement of red, meaning that the cyan serves as a filter that absorbs red. The amount of cyan applied to a white sheet of paper controls how much of the red in white light will be reflected back from the paper. Ideally, the cyan is completely transparent to green and blue light and has no effect on those parts of the spectrum. Magenta is the complement of green, and yellow the complement of blue. Combinations of different amounts of the three can produce a wide range of colors with good saturation.

---Maybe the next seasons worked as subtractive seasons to the one's that came before? something like that? How each dimension represents a spectrum of light, the shadow self, frequency, etc. It must be something along these lines-----

I do wonder if it has to do with eyes, and how we perceive color. We keep seeing the blue eye, so maybe they mean the eye specifically, or the connection b/t the eye and the mind, which circles back to idealism, and microcosms. I do wonder if the dimensions aren't meant to be composed of light, or specific spectrum vibrations.

"Light comes in different wavelengths, or more commonly, combinations of multiple wavelengths. Color is a purely biological phenomenon having to do with what we perceive with our eyes. So when a kindergarten teacher says that “mixing red and blue make purple”, there’s really a whole lot of physics and biology that’s being glossed over."

"In our retinas, we (generally) have three kinds of cones that react to incoming light. These cones can detect many wavelengths of light, but each peaks in a different part of the spectrum. Very simplistically, we can say that one peaks in the “red” part of the visible spectrum, one peaks in the “green” part of the spectrum, and one peaks in the “blue”."

"Now, the “red” cones don’t just react to red light—it’s just that they react most strongly to red light. But light in the “green” part of the spectrum might also stimulate a “red” cone to som

Never really made sense to me, curious to know if it has something to do with the light wave properties or anything else

I already know HSL & HSV - turn 1 & 3 channels off then either mess with the gain or you could go in the RGB and uncheck preserve luminance. However, if pushed too far you start to see artifacts. I'm trying to recreate the Linny lut. I feel like there are other ways to achieve subtractive color. I follow professional colorist and they somehow nail the look. I'm sure there are other techniques out there without the use of HSL and HSV. Please help!

for reference

I have a graph of two overlaid histograms that I want to look good in greyscale, so I want the combined color of both histograms to be darker than any individual color.

however, this doesn't work with normal colors in R. If for example I combine red and green, the "red" color in greyscale appears darker than red+green combined.

Is there a way to use subtractive colors in ggplot?

I know why white isn’t a primary colour in additive colouring, but I am still not sure why white isn’t a primary colour in subtractive colouring.

I'm learning about color science, and I have a basic understanding of color theory from art school but I am a bit lost in the science right now. I'm hearing a lot about additive and subtractive color, but I'm not sure I understand what they are and when/how each type of color occurs. One is light and one is pigments? How does this relate to artistic color theory? Are there other types of color too?

I hope this makes sense! Thank you for sharing your knowledge!

I'm looking for a way to do subtractive color grading in Resolve, but couldn't figure out how to do it myself. That's why I'm looking for a plugin and I now can't decide which one I should choose.

Does anybody have experience with one or even both of these Plugins?

Colorlab seems to be not quite released yet, but the shown results looked somehow nicer.

Colorlab

Dehancer

I already know that mixing paint is an example of subtractive color mixing while the mixing of light emitted by pixels is an example of additive color mixing, however, why are the rules for those two types different?