Contrasting Colors
Contrasting or complimentary colors (same) refers to the colors opposite one another in the Hue wheel, like Blue-Yellow, Green-Magenta and Cyan-Red. Whenever they are used together in an image, they bring out high impact, boldness, high color contrast. Colors that are adjacent to each other are known as analogous colors and they provide harmony to a pictures, and a sense of calmness.
It's good to make use of these properties to express the mood you want in your images.
Here's a link to a Hue wheel:
https://moodymiddle.wikispaces.com/f...olor-wheel.gif
This is also useful when we want to correct a color cast, adding the opposite color will generally work.
I should note that in the pre-computer days and for art, the primary colors were red, yellow and blue :)
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