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The color wheel and complementary colors |
The color wheel demonstrates the relationship between the three primary colors of red, green and blue and the three primary lights, cyan, magenta and yellow. |
For example, magenta can be made from the two adjacent colors of red and blue. Similarly, yellow and cyan, when mixed together, produce green. |
Colors opposite each other on the color wheel are called complementary colors. The complementary color of green is magenta, for example. If the photograph you've taken has too much green in it, you can suppress this effect by adding in its complementary color, magenta (red and blue according to the RGB model). Conversely, you can make red brighter by reducing cyan (green and blue, according to the RGB model). |
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