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Adobe Photoshop 7 Tutorials
Working with Color / Color Palette
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Another way you can pick color in Photoshop is by bringing up the color palette, and using the color palette to choose your color. This is the color palette, and if you're not seeing it, go to the window menu and choose color. The color palette has some features that are similar to the tools palette; notice that it also has the foreground and background color. If I want to edit one of these colors, all I need to do is click once on whichever color is not selected, and I know which swatch is selected because the swatch has this heavy black border around it. So right now I would be editing my foreground color, and if I clicked in the background swatch I'd be editing my background color. If I click again, it will bring up the color picker, and I could choose a color in this manner using the color picker. But I'm going to hit cancel for now, and talk more about some of the features of the color palette. The most obvious feature of the color palette are these sliders right here that allow us to slide over to a particular value. And you can see, I'm just going to drag all these sliders up, that what we have are values for red, green and blue - because currently my color palette is designed to pick colors using the RGB color mode or color model. We can change that color model by going over to the color palette menu, and pressing and hold on that. And you can see that we have all these various different color models to choose from to choose our color. Also, I want to point out that when you move the sliders, the other sliders or spectrums I should say, update to give you a dynamic update of what these other options would be. So if I increase the value for my red slider here, moving anywhere on my green slider to this position will give me this color. Another way to edit these colors is to type in a value, right here. I can drag select over this numerical value and type in a value from 0 to 255 because each one of these red, green and blue sliders is really based on a gray scale value of between 0 being black and 255 being white. So, if we just type in 255 and hit the tab key, 255 and 255 we will get white. At the bottom of my color palette, I have a spectrum and this is currently the RGB spectrum. And other way I can pick color is to move my cursor into the spectrum area, and notice that it changes into an eyedropper tool. So now all I need to do is click once to choose a different color. I am going to make sure I'm editing my foreground colors by clicking on the foreground color swatch. Also notice that I get the out of gamut icon warning, and of course this works the same way as it does in the color picker. All I need to do is click on this warning icon, and the color palette will take me to the closest possible in-gamut or printable color of this particular color. Which in this case is this dreary dark purple. Other features of the color spectrum is that we can choose black and white always from these two small swatches here. I'm going to choose some other options here, such as the gray scale slider and if we choose that, you can see that my RGB sliders have been replaced with a gray scale slider. So, I can choose between white and black and in this case my numerical option here is based on a percentage. So 100% will give me black and 0% will give me white. And any % value in between will give me that percentage of gray. And we could also choose CMYK sliders, as well as LAB sliders and web safe colors. And a nice feature of web safe colors is of course that these sliders will snap to these tick marks. And notice, even though I'm using the web safe colors, I'm still using the RGB spectrum. If we want to change that, we can go and choose from these various spectrum options at the bottom section of our color palette menu. And other way to do that is to hold down the control key on the Macintosh or the right mouse button on the PC, and go into the spectrum area and you can get a popup menu of spectrum options.
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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