Colors in Photoshop Part 02 Technical color wheel

5.2 Technical Color Wheel

5.2.1 RGB

As per the digital medium the 3 primary color are Red, Green and Blue. In any digital image each pixel is made up of these 3 digital primary colors. RGB is also termed as additive colors as when the 3 colors overlap each other it creates White color. Since it creates a new color it is termed as additive color mixing Refer to Figure 5.5.

Figure 5.5 RGB Additive color

5.2.2 CMYK

As per the print medium the main colors are CMYK (Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black). This is a Subtractive color module because when we mix equal amount of cyan, magenta, and yellow color we get black...In this CMYK process white is natural color of the background or paper, Refer to Figure 5.6.

Figure 5.6. CMYK (Subtractive colors)