how do you make the color blue?

Question

What colors need to be mixed to make the color blue? I have true green and a yellow-orange... What will these two make?

Answer 1

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BLUE IS NOT A PRIMARY FOR
NEG MIXING - ONLY POS !!!!

(even if idiots give it a thumbs down)

How do you think your inkjets
work to make blue when they
only have cyan yellow and
magenta ink?!?!?!?!
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Green and yellow/orange are going to make any of a huge variety of shades depending on the ratios used. If 50/50 then a dirty brown colour I would think


Blue is a primary when using a mixing system like light - . Primaries are Red Blue Green - hence the colour of the pixels on your monitor / tv screen

When using ink / paint however, blue is NOT a primary, and is made from cyan and magenta. These primaries are Cyan, Magenta and Yellow.

So, if you have cyan paint and magenta paint, you can indeed mix your blue up as you require - in exactly the same way as the cyan, magenta and yellow ink in your colour printer does :)

Answer 2

What Colors Make Up Blue

Answer 3

Blue is a primary color and can't be made by mixing other colors. You need to buy blue. Green and yellow= a different shade of green.

Answer 4

RE:
how do you make the color blue?
What colors need to be mixed to make the color blue? I have true green and a yellow-orange... What will these two make?

Answer 5

Blue is a Primary Color .So is Red and Yellow.You can only use the Primary Colors for mixing 2 of the Primary Colors.Example:
Blue+Red=Purple,
Blue+Yellow=Green,
Yellow+Red=Orange,
The answers given are called secondary colors ,Also SECONDARY+PRIMARY = TRITARY COLORS!!!
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Answer 6

i think you can figure out the answer to the blue thing... if those are the only two colors you have, you should probably just go to an art store and buy a much wider variety.

green and yellow-orange will make a color between yellowish green and brown... not very appealing at all really. it will not go completely brown however because of the yellow. green and red make brown

I'd suggest studying this: http://www.colormatters.com/colortheory.html

Answer 7

Blue is a primary color ( along with green and red). It isn't a color you make, its a color you are given (but not true with all primary colors hence blue + yellow = green). You can mix two primaries to get a third level of color. Color theory is very interesting, and seeing as you are dealing with paint, try and get yourself a cheap but useful color wheel at the store ( very handy!). Most likely green + yellow orange would make some shade of brown.

Answer 8

You cannot make a bright, true blue, since it is a primary color. But you can give an IMPRESSION of a dull blue by mixing titanium white and mars black or ivory black. It is more like grey, but if you put this color next to an orange , it will almost look blue.

Answer 9

Blue is a primary color. You cannot mix two other colors and come up with blue. Green and yellow make chartreuse.

Answer 10

blue is a primary color...btw the three primary colors are:

Red
Blue
Yellow

White and black are a hue.

~How many colors can an inkjet printer can produce?

"I use a HP680C in the office, and it have two cartridges, one for black and one for color (yellow/cian/magenta?). If the printer fire one drop of each ink at a given point, we can have only 6 different colors (ignoring white and black). If it can fire two or more drops at a given point, maybe we can have more colors, but I suspect that the printer use this to control quality of the presentation, not the number of colors. Anybody knows for sure? With dithering it can make more colors, with reduced resolution."
Like most print processes you only have a limited selection of inks to use. Full colour can be derived from three primary colors, just like a monitor. For monitors, these are Red, Green, and Blue because monitors emit light resulting in an additive color process. Inks, on the other hand, absorb light so printing is a subtractive process. The resulting inks should then be cyan (blue+green or -red), magenta (red+blue or -green), and yellow (red+green or -blue).

Therefore, the colors used in common inkjet printers are not really capable of producing true full spectrum photorealistic quality results since they are red (not magenta), blue (not cyan), and yellow. These are optimized for nice saturated primary colors when used independently. Also see the section: Why are red, blue, and yellow inkjet primaries?.

In addition, the combination of the three primary colors should be capable of being combined to produce black but due to misregistration and the pigments used, this black would be somewhat muddy and brown. Therefore, a separate black ink cartridge is normally used for black printing." from link below