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Colour Picker

When you click a colour pot, the colour picker appears. You can then set the colour pot to use the colour you need. Using the colour picker, you can pick colours by:

- Setting colour model channel values
- Sampling pixels in a clip
- Selecting a colour pot
- Mixing colours on a palette

The colour picker takes LUTs and the exposure and contrast settings into account. Disable LUTs and reset exposure and contrast to display actual colour values.

NoteThe colour picker used with overlays (grids, letterboxes, for example) does not take LUTs or the exposure and contrast settings into account.

(a) Current Colour pot(b) Reference Colour pot

By default, the colour picker appears over the colour pot you clicked to open it. Once it is open, you can move it to another location by dragging the grey bar along its upper edge. You can also set colour picker preferences to open the colour picker at other locations (the colour picker inherits the same preferences as those you set for the calculator). See User Interface Preferences.

To cancel colour picking at any time, click anywhere outside the colour picker.

#### Topics in this section

- Using the Colour Picker with 16-bit Floating Point Colours
- Picking Colours by Setting Colour Model Channel Values
- Sampling Colours in a Clip
- Selecting a Colour from the Colour Pots
- Mixing Colours Using the Colour Palette