Mixing Yellow and Blue Does NOT Make Green

[MICHELLE-guqc]

Great channel. I'm a graphic reproductor 17 yrs. You would surprised how many graphic designers couldn't understand what the difference is between RGB and Cmyk. You should never go by the colour off the screen. Screen is RGB, and can never be 100% configured screen. Graphics and printing it's Cmyk format or special colours PMS special order inks etc . Anything that's in RGB format needs to be converted to CMYK for reproduction otherwise the colours will be not correct and will produce brownish/grey colour. You need to go by the colour droplet you always have colour seperation filter up and a pantone swatch book at hand. That's how it works in the graphics printing industry. What programs are you running? Do you have a filter called transparency? You can do your green paint highlight (mask) and adjust the green while it's in mask mode, you will be able to adjust the transparency. In mask mode your only adjusting what you have mask it different layers . The green It would be easier than trying to paint in solid the colours.. I worked with Adobe's suites layouts doing magazines.

[michaeldavid]

Until now, I didn't know this problem existed for making green on the computer screen the old fashion way, by blending yellow and blue. Roxio PhotoSuite 4, an old app that I use, has opacity adjustment, and I have no problem mixing other colors in an intuitive way. Mixing red and yellow, I get orange, mixing green and red, I get brown, and so on... The only way I've found to make green look more painted on the computer screen is by starting out with 100% solid green, then mixing in some white.

[davidciprys]

Note : This is because pure yellow and pure blue makes gray and not green as we taught and this is because in real life blue color have decent amount of green and also some red in it so when you mix real life blue and real life yellow you get 40% green and 35% red there is approximately 25% of blue and that cause that 25% red and green and blue makes shade and 10% red and 15 green make color pigment.

[coolzee]

Uhm was painting and I ran out of green so I mixed yellow and blue I got a very beautiful green...

[VictorSilva-rqkz]

You need to say if your talking about additive or subtractive. Artists are particularly difficult to convince that it's a different world when we are talking about additive colors, because they are so used to mixing paints (which is subtractive).
A magnifying glass and a TV screen will be needed to convince them.

[zombiegamer]

All I seen was Purple. I tried that impossible color test where it’s blue and yellow and I got purple in between

[justtheletterV]

3:48 If you see closely, the blue has sort of a violet bias which means there’s a hint of red in it, that can ruin the green,
Same goes for mixing violet-purples(I know they aren’t the same color) when the blue has a green bias meaning a hint of yellow in it and a red that also has orange in it, which has a hint of yellow, the orange red is the main culprit in this scenario, yellows, warm yellow (orange yellows) are not the best for mixing greens along with cyans (greenish Blue), however, they are, good.

[ambrosia]

I have a coworker who said today that yellow+red+black gives you a dark blue-ish color. I tried to explain him every kind of way that you can't get blue from red and yellow nor CMYK nor RBG. than he said not blue, bluish.. After 1 hour argument I gave up and said that the only way he can get blue from red is if he start to pour some alkali into acid with indicator in it

[zinoplays]

I peed in a blue Gatorade bottle and got green.

[jamessmith]

In subtractive color principle, which uses the CMY color model, yellow and blue will make very dark yellow. Here's the demonstration:

With equal amounts you will have these:
Blue: 1× cyan and 1× magenta
Yellow: 2× yellow

1× cyan + 1× magenta + 1× yellow = 3× black
Add 1× black to the remaining 1× yellow then you will get 2× dark yellow
Add the remaining 2× black to 2× dark yellow then you will get 4× very dark yellow

In additive color principle which uses the RGB color model, blue and yellow will make very light blue. Here's the demonstration:

With equal amounts you will have these:
Yellow: 1× red and 1× green
Blue: 1× blue

1× red + 1× green + 1× blue = 3× white
Add 1× white to the remaining 1× blue then you will get 2× light blue
Add the remaining 2× white to 2× light blue then you will get 4× very light blue

[jesuslovesyou]

I was makeing slime and blue did not work so i added yellow and i maked light blue

[hugo]

I agree. The real problem is that everybody call cyan "blue" lol

[spacemanmad]

Blue-yellow is impossible since their addition would give white when using additive color mixing.

[justtheletterV]

That is because Blue has violet in it French Ultramarine Blue is an Indigo or a deep violet blue (not related to indigo dye) so cmy, Secondaries are indigo (fr. ultramarine blue (pb29) or ultra violet bs (pv15) ) Scarlet (cad red hue (pr108) or pyrrole scarlet (pr255) ) and Green (Phthalocyanine green yellow shade (pg36) )

[BushcraftOnFire]

You should get Artrage Aaron (If you don't already use it). It has true color mixing!

[aprilazul]

This video, I thought you was wrong, but you weren't. Thx for making this video!😊

[wiktormaciejewski]

Haha i mixed yellow with blue today in my 2d graphic editor, cuz wasn't sure if blue and yellow makes green for whatever reason, a moment of doubt... so i moved yellow ober blue, set it to 50% transparency and was like "huh why is this grey???". Then i found your video. Thanks for explaining this phenomenon to me.

[BannytheBabbit]

Well you used dark blue not light so you are in the raw I knew that dark blue and yellow made grey

[kepeter]

im not sure which program it was, but you can switch to cmyk colors in sketchbook or krita as well

[dxrrxw]

Before I heard the answer blue and yellow makes purple? That's how it is in my head