Primary and Secondary Colors and Additive and Subtractive Color Mixing
Primary colors are those that cannot be created by mixing other colors. Because of the way we perceive colors using three different sets of wavelengths, there are three primary colors. Any color can be represented as some mixture of these three pri¬mary colors.
There are two different ways to combine colors—additive and subtractive color mixing.
Subtractive color mixing is the one most of us learned in school, and it describes how two colored paints or inks combine on a piece of paper. The three subtractive