Color photography cyan, a greenish-blue which absorbs red; magenta, a purplish-pink which absorbs green; and yellow, which absorbs blue. The red-filtered image is used to create a cyan dye image, the green-filtered image to create a magenta dye image, and the blue-filtered image to create a yellow dye image. When the three dye images are superimposed they form a complete color image. This is also known as the CMYK color model. The "K" is a black component normally added in ink-jet and other mechanical printing processes to compensate for the imperfections of the colored inks used, which ideally should absorb or transmit
Blue–green distinction in language "siwy" means blue-gray in Polish (literally it means the color of gray hair). The word "siny" refers to violet-blue and is used to describe the color of bruises ("siniaki"), hematoma, and the blue skin discoloration that can result from moderate hypothermia. Russian does not have a single word referring to the whole range of colors denoted by the English term "blue". Instead, it traditionally treats light blue (голубой, "goluboy") as a separate color independent from plain or dark blue (синий, "siniy"), with all seven "basic" colors of the spectrum (red–orange–yellow–green–голубой / "goluboy" (sky blue, light azure, but "does not equal"