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Uploaded by on Jun 13, 2008

The first video in a series of videos detailing basic color theory and how you can apply it to fashion.

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  • Wrong complementary colours are shown in this video!

  • I'm fairly certain this isn't true. Would you mind elaborating?

  • CMY inks are hard to come by and economics.

    About vivid violets which I mentioned earlier, with, mixing blue which is actually a combination of magenta and cyan in pigment, with red which is actually a combination of yellow and magenta equals a real mess. well not a real mess, but it certainly isn't as vivid as say 1/2 cyan plus 3/4 magenta.

    You can research more about it but I can only do so much with 500 characters. I just thought I'd shed some light on rby vs cmy.

  • Doing a little research, you're absolutely right. Thanks for the info! Fortunately, it doesn't affect our purposes significantly (since we won't actually be mixing any colors), but it's certainly good to know.

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  • He showed right complementary colours. Problem was that camera doesn't show colours correctly. Also it would have been easier if complementary colours shown had been red and green instead of red-orange and blue-green (turquoise).

  • you should not teach people what you know wrong red and blue are not complementry

    complementry colors are oppisite on the color weel your weel is wrong

  • thanks!

  • Complementary colors should be directly opposite each other on the color wheel, correct your color wheel.. Red-Green Yellow-Purple- Orange!

  • Great, but you talk to fast!

  • Interesting, I thought it was just for light.

    Weird that most know wrong. I remember failing to make black from red and yellow and blue, now it makes sense. Thanks.

  • Thank you so much! May I have a cup cake? :)

  • The colours shown as complementaries maybe become neutral in subtractive paint mixture, but in optical (subtractive) mixture, which is important for our feeling, they are not complementary.

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