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The additive color wheel has the primary colours of Red, Blue and Green with the Secondary colors being cyan, magenta and yellow. This is the color wheel used when dealing with light. If all three primary colored lights are blended the result will be white

The subractive color wheel has primary colors Red, Blue and Yellow, with the Secondary colors being purple, orange and green. This is the color wheel used when dealing with pigments and chemicals. If all three primary colored pigments are blended the result will be a murky black-brown

When you select a color on your moniter to print, software has to convert the formula to the other color wheel so that a similar color will come out on your printer

2006-07-01 03:00:56 · answer #1 · answered by famousblue11 2 · 8 2

Red, yellow, blue are the primary colours as far as mixing paint colours goes.
With light, though, it is red, green, blue. And red and green make yellow, whereas with paint that gives you brown.

I don't understand why so many people are saying red, yellow and green are the 3 primary colours.

2006-07-01 09:42:21 · answer #2 · answered by Rotifer 5 · 0 0

When talking about art, the three primary colours are:
red, yellow and blue

mixing these three colours gets you the secondary colours
red + yellow = orange
blue + red = purple
yellow + blue = green

Often a colour wheel is used to show this slide in colour change.

Green is often considered a primary colour in a more scientific sense because of the way light mixes. Because white light is made up from red and green and blue, and these are called Additive Primaries (see diagram if this doesn't fully make sense: http://www.arthistoryclub.com/art_history/upload/thumb/d/d8/200px-AdditiveColorMixing.png )

2006-07-01 02:45:06 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

It's red, yellow and blue because those 3 can't be made from other colours, but some people add green, even though blue and yellow makes green, but I can't remember why.

2006-07-01 02:41:39 · answer #4 · answered by Mummy of 2 7 · 0 0

red, blue and yellow. The primary colors are the ones that mix to make other colors. Green is not a primary color. If you mix yellow and blue, it makes green. Red and yellow make orange. Red and blue make purple.

2006-07-01 02:40:20 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

In art: primary colours are- red, blue, yellow
secondary colours are- green, orange, purple

In science: blue, green, red

2006-07-02 07:00:46 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

red, blue and yellow(they cannot be made by mixing other colours,whereas all others can)
but the primary light colours are red, blue, and green(not yellow)

2006-07-01 02:55:26 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0 0

red blue and yellow

if u mix blue and yellow u will get green ,,so green is not primary colour

2006-07-01 02:39:06 · answer #8 · answered by yyaliceyy 3 · 0 0

generally, the primary colours are considered to be red, blue yellow.
This applies for paint.

If you are mixing light, then the primary colours are red, green and blue.

Hope this helps

2006-07-02 05:00:16 · answer #9 · answered by katie_beverley 3 · 0 0

for science...

red, green and blue are the primary colours. this is because when lights in those colours blend, they create white light. this is used to create images in tv's.

for art...

red, blue and yellow are the primary colours because they're the basic colours from which you can create secondary, then tertiary colours. white and black arent considered as true colours because they only change the shade. they cannot make another colour

2006-07-01 06:26:22 · answer #10 · answered by kiwi 2 · 0 0

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