Color Models: RGB And CMY

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Color models RGB & CMY: If you are designing anything using colors, you should be familiar with the two most basic and well-known color models: RGB and CMY. For most purposes, what you really should be interested in is that RGB color is used for digital communication, like televisions or websites and CMY is used for printing. • RGB stands for the colors red, green, and blue, the colors widely recognized in design fields as the primary colors. It is also an additive type of color models. All colors begin with black or what is called “Darkness”, and as you add more lights of colors to it, it becomes white which is seen or visible to the eye (all colors shining together like a light bulb). RGB maxes at the color white, which is the same as having all colors added together with full brightness. • CMY is a subtractive type of a color model, just like paint/pigment. Everything begins with nothing, just a white paper and as you add more colors, at the end it turns black. CMY represents the standard colored inks used in printers to create different colors like cyan, magenta, yellow and black. If you happen to be watching something on TV, for example watching a movie. In that case you are using RGB. That is how monitors like cameras and televisions display colors. On the other hand CMY is not something you need to be worrying about while …show more content…

In the RGB the computer monitor works on mixing the colors red, green and blue to create colorful pictures. On the other hand, the CMYK color model, uses absorbing lights inks, cyan, magenta and yellow, whose colors are mixed using half toning. The items which are displayed on any type of monitors like a computer monitor, might not match the items which are printed if the opposite color modes are combined in the two

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