Why do printers have CMYK ink instead of RYB & black ink?
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light mixing creates the colors
with RGB, you’re directly creating the light, so you mix them to get the colors. they call this additive because you add colors together
with CMYK, you filter light that either goes through it, or reflects off of it. so light created by something like an LED will be RGB, and things like light filters or paint, will be CMYK. think of them as the opposite. for cyan, the purple and yellow get absorbed, and only the blue/green comes through, for example
it’s like building a snowman. CMYK is like starting with a giant block of snow. you carve it and remove snow until you’re left with a snowman. it’s subtractive. if you gather snow to build the snowman, that’s how RGB works. in the end, you get the same result, but you got there from opposite directions. hope that makes a little sense. YouTube probably has some cool videos on the topic if you want illustrations
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