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Adobe Photoshop 7 Tutorials
Working with Color / Color Picker
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At any time you can bring up the color picker to choose a color this way, and all I need to do is click in one of the foreground or background swatches, and it will bring up the color picker. So what is going on here with the color picker? Notice we have a large field of color, and we also have this vertical column, and we have several radio buttons here. The radio button in this case describes my vertical column. In this case, the vertical column relates to hue. And I can scroll up and down to choose a different hue. And then this color field allows me to choose between various saturations and values. So you can see that from left to right is my saturation axis. All the way to the left is least saturated and all the right is the most saturated. And the vertical axis will relate to brightness value. All the way at the bottom is the darkest value and at the top is the lightest value. If you want to pick a color, all I need to do is click anywhere in this field of color and notice that it is updated right here. This top swatch shows me my current color, the bottom swatch shows me the color that I was using. We can change our vertical column here to be any of these other values such as saturation, so in this case now my field of color relates to the hues and brightness values. Or I could choose brightness value, and now I have hues and saturations in this field of color. So these first three radio buttons allow me to choose between HSB axes, these next three radio buttons allow me to choose between red, green and blue axes. We also have the option to choose the LAB color space. Lightness is one axis, and a-b axes are also available to us. You can also simply type in a value here for hue, and this will go around a hue ring, and to the same extent you can type in a value for any of these other radio buttons. And if you want, you could also choose a custom CMYK color mix by selecting one of these values and typing in a number. I'm just going to hit the tab key to choose the next field. One nice feature of using the color picker is I can check this box right here - only web colors. And I'll just go back to the hue radio button, and now I can see all my web safe colors that I can click on, by clicking on any one of these selected areas. And this will snap to a web safe color. I am going to disable only web colors and talk about some of these other options available to us. Notice there is this little triangular icon here with an exclamation point, and what this indicates to me is that this color that I have chosen is out of the printable gamut. That means the printable gamut of course is a range of colors that can be reproduced in print. When I am working in an RGB color space, there are many more colors in RGB than can actually be reproduced in a printed document. And it is particularly true for the blue and purples. So if I want to get close to this color, I can see that this is out of printable gamut. And all I need to do is click on this little icon, and it will snap me to the closest color that is in the printable gamut range. If I click on this little cube icon, it will snap me to the closest web safe color. Another option I have is to click custom, and it will bring up a popup list of various popular color systems, such as the pantone library as well as the trumatch library. And one nice feature about this is all I need to do is, like the instruction says here, is type in a particular number for my pantone color. So if I want, I could just type in 54-3 and it will take me to that particular pantone color. So if you are working with the pantone color swatch book, all you need to do is type in that particular number, and it will take you right to that color swatch.
Tutorial Information
| Course: | Adobe Photoshop 7 |
| Author: | Andrew J. Hathaway |
| SKU: | 33329 |
| ISBN: | 1889347272 |
| Release Date: | 2002-09-05 |
| Duration: | 11 hrs / 152 lessons |
| Work Files: |
Yes |
| Captions: | No |
| Compatibility: |
Vista/XP/2000, OS X, Linux QuickTime 7, Flash 8 |
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