Compare and contrast the primary and secondary of light and pigment? - Answers

primary colors are blue red and yellow when you blend two primary colors together you get secondary colors blue+red=purple red+yellow=orange yellow+blue=green and the primary colors of light are blue red and green. when you mix blue and red light you get magenta, red mixed with green yields yellow. and green mixed with blue yields cyan blue. so you a connection between using pigment and light - the secondary colors of light magenta, yellow and cyan just happen to be the colors that printers use to generate a color picture for you instead of red, blue and green pigment which unfortunately come out too dark to be used in the printing industry. the color mixing of pigments is subtractive and alway generates a color darker than its two parents. but the mixing of colored light is always additive and generates colors brighter than their parents. when you mix all three pigments what do you see black. but when you mix all the colors of light you get white light. see here:http://home.att.net/~B-P.TRUSCIO/COLOR.htm