From the course: Inkjet Printing for Photographers

Unlock the full course today

Join today to access over 22,600 courses taught by industry experts or purchase this course individually.

Exploring how color works

Exploring how color works - Photoshop Tutorial

From the course: Inkjet Printing for Photographers

Start my 1-month free trial

Exploring how color works

“

In movie 2.2 of my Foundations of Photography: Black and White course we looked at how red, green, and blue--the three primary colors of light--mix together to create all other colors. If you haven't seen that movie, you should take a look at it now and then come back here. Ink is different. Inks are made from dyes or pigments, and they have different primary colors than light does. In ink, the primary colors are cyan, magenta, and yellow. Unlike light, these primaries are subtractive. As you mix them together, they get darker. In reality, we can't create pigments or dyes that are perfectly pure because they're made up of physical elements and compounds. It's impossible for us to create pigments and dyes that don't have other colors and properties mixed in. So, in the real world, if you mix a bunch of cyan, magenta and yellow ink together, you don't actually get black, you just get a dark brown mush. To get true black, a printer uses a dedicated black ink. This black also lets it…

Contents