Re: Which is it?
Thanks Ellis. I guess I can start with what I found and adjust from there. I did recently have to create an orange dye. I originally started with a commercial orange dye, but that color was pretty dull, so I ended up creating my own with red and a surprisingly large amount of yellow.
I believe dyes are additive colors, like working with computer image colors. Some of the formulas I found support that, in that they are specified in RGB and CMYK values. I think paints are subtractive colors. Been a few decades since I really studied this.
The very odd side of the color I'm trying to get is that when I brush out samples of the mixes I have made, they come out looking dark, dull and almost somewhat black. But this morning, looking at the samples, they dried to about (not quite) what I was looking for.
Could really use a few eye droppers. Those dye bottles do not have the same level of control. Then again, as a diabetic, I suspect I have some spare syringes around.