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Subtractive color processes

Scope note

Photographic processes using cyan, magenta, and yellow dyes or inks to produce a full-color image. Each dye permits two of the primary colors to pass, while blocking the third; a combination of two dyes (on separate filters) will allow only a single primary to pass.

Term type

AAT

Getty AAT term number

300053474

Broader Terms used

photographic process

Created

13yrs ago

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