Now that you’ve learned the fundamentals of color theory and its different color systems, let us help you answer the questions “what colors make cyan” and “what two colors make cyan?”. By referencing the diagram above in the Additive Color Chart, you’ll see that you can mix green and blue to make cyan.

The primary colors of pigment are magenta, yellow, and cyan (commonly simplified as red, yellow, and blue). Pigments are chemicals that absorb selective wavelengths—they prevent certain wavelengths of light from being transmitted or reflected.

Blue

(See Diagram A) These three resulting colors, cyan, magenta and yellow, are the three primary colors of pigment. These are the purest colors, and cannot be produced by mixing other pigment colors.

This leaves nothing: the subtractive mix of yellow, magenta and cyan = white–blue–green–red = black.

white

When it comes to making magenta with paint, the first thing that you need to understand is, it is a family of purple and violet. You can simply add the color red or blue to get within the range of magenta. I hope you can use magenta to make colorful illustrations and artworks.

It’s worth noting here that RGB and CMYK are almost exact opposites: the overlaps inside the CMY circles make red, green and blue, and the combinations inside the RGB circles make cyan, magenta and yellow. This means you can create much brighter, more saturated colors in RGB than can ever be printed in CMYK.

Corel Draw

1. Select the object you want to change from RGB to CMYK.
2. On the menu bar, find and select the “Fill” tool.
3. Click on the “Fill Color” dialog box.
4. Find and select the “CMYK” option.
5. Click on “OK”