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Picking Colours

Picking Colours

Sampling Colours in a Clip

 

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Picking Colours by Setting Colour Model Channel Values

You can pick colours by adjusting colour model channel sliders. You can also enter channel values directly into the fields below each slider.

The Mode box and Colour Model box settings, and channel value units (percentages or bit-values) are saved on a per-user basis, at the end of each session.

To pick colours by setting colour model channel values:

1. Click a colour pot to open the colour picker.

   The Current Colour pot and Reference Colour pot both display the incoming colour.

2. From the Mode box, select Clr or Clr% to view the colour model channel sliders.

   
   

   (a) Mode box  (b) Colour Model box  

   Select:	To:
   Clr	Enter values using a range based on bit depth (0-255 for 8-bit, 0-4095 for 12-bit). Enter values from 0-255.
   Clr%	Enter values using a percentage floating point value, ranging from 0-100%.

3. From the Colour Model box, select the colour model you want to work with.

   Select:	To set colours using the:
   RGB	Red, green, and blue channels.
   HLS	Hue, luma, and saturation channels.
   YUV	Luma (Y) and chroma (U, V) channels.

4. Adjust the sliders, or enter the values in the fields for each slider.

   As you adjust the sliders, the colour in the Current Colour pot changes to reflect the current colour. You can compare the current colour to the incoming colour in the Reference Colour pot.

5. To apply the selected colour, click the Current Colour pot.