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Complementary Color: Colors opposite each other, however, such as red and green or blue and orange, can be seen as contrasting colors, known as complementary colors. There are, of course, infinite nuances of color between each of these rather artificial subdivisions of the wheel. Colors can be pale or intense depending on the colors they are mixed with and, technically speaking, they become shades, tints and tones of the original base color. A shade, for instance, is created by adding black to the base color, while a tint is made by adding white, and a tone is the result of a color being either lightened or darkened by the addition of gray.
These techniques have the same limitation as the daguerreotype and the tintype: each color photograph is unique. The negative-positive principle was utilized in Kodacolor film (1941), which is similar in general principle to Kodachrome film, except that the image is not reversed to a positive. Dye-coupling development directly converts each emulsion to an image complementary to the color it records. Thus a color negative shows not only reversal of the lights and shades, but also of color. A blond will appear with blue hair and green lips. From this negative any number of prints can be made by repeating the process with identical triple emulsion coated on a white base.
When you match or mix your pattern, if their main colors are complementary they will work well together - if they are lightened or darkened in tone, and used in unequal amounts. Common examples of complementary colors that contrast successfully are rust red with dark green and dark blue with orange. |
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