Colors – part 3K1066BI – Graphical DesignTeppo RäisänenTeppo.raisanen@oamk.fi

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•Traditionally, red, blue and yellow are used as primary colors▫Used by painters

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•In computer era we use more often either •RGB

▫Red, Green, Blue•CMYK

▫Cyan, Magenta, Yellow▫K comes from blacK

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•RGB uses something called additive color model▫Used with TV’s▫Also used heavily with computers▫Normally, we have a black screen where we

add color

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•CMYK uses something called substractive color model▫It is used e.g. in printing

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•Normally printing is done to white paper▫Colors are done by substracting

(absorbing) certain wavelenghts from light and reflecting others

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•As can be seen from the previous slide cyan, magenta and yellow do not produce deep enough black▫So fourth color – black - is usually used▫Thus the name CMYK▫K = blacK

•Also as black is used a lot e.g. in newspapers (all text is generally black) it savesinc to use black color

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•When we print all CMYK colors one on top of another we see the final product