Additive Color Mixing

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Here is an RGB image. RGB is additive color. Can you guess how to mix the RGB color separations to produce the image?

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You add the three color separations together. In Photoshop, the blend mode for adding is LINEAR DODGE.

(You can also use SCREEN in this case, since the R, G and B channels are completely independent of each other, SCREEN and LINEAR DODGE produce identical results)

The layered .psd file is here if you want a look.

Next up: (so-called) subtractive color mixing. Can you guess which blend mode combines CMYK color separations?

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