Color #s

[digidoit]

I've been "lurking" at another site where they are doing a challenge with everyone creating parts for a mega kit. They want everyone to use the same colors by number. I'm clueless about this. I know some of the color swatches have numbers when I point to them, but there has to be way to identify the five colors and then save them.
Sign me...
"in need of ropes for the climb up the learning curve"
Carol Ann:confused:

[Sonita]

Hopefully I remember this well. Do a search information the net for Color P ix. It is a tiny program. Dowload it to your computer. Then use it by pointing to the color in the site, and it will give you the color number.

[troush]

Usually the color numbers are the red, green, and blue (hence, RGB) values needed to make a color. If you open up the Color Picker (ctrl-I for the Eyedropper tool) you can click on a color on the screen and it will set the color to the one you picked, and you can look at the numbers. You can also input the numbers on the lower right of the Color Picker screen.

-Trish

[digidoit]

What I needed to be able to do was put in the numbers and now I see how to do that. Some of them don't look that close to what they show, but I'm sure there are several things that affect that.
Thanks again,
Carol Ann

[Priss]

This could (in addition to the RGB values) be displayed in the universal hexadecimal number systems. Basically, this is where every single possible color of the millions of colors available are assigned a numbers and letters code for the exact color they are.

When I do these challenges, I assign the challenge by the hexadecimal, so let me show you how to figure it out---and use it.

Try this: Bring any photo into photoshop. Bring up the color picker by choosing the "foreground" color in the color swatches of the tool bin (lower left area of the bin).

"Sample" an area in the photo, and then study the color picker dialog box.
See at the bottom there are letters and numbers---six of them (below he rgb area?)

"Sample" elsewhere in the photo, then study the hexadecimal result in the dialog box again--notice that both the hexa and the rgb values changed whenever you picked a different color from your photo.

So if, in the challenge you are participating in the color swatch samples and you are told to use color # 3f9cbd just highlight and CLEAR that hexa box and type in 3f9cbd You will now have a rich turquoise blue color, and when you accept the change, your "foreground" color picker will have the color assigned to you by the challenge. As you progress with color and Photoshop, you will also find ways to "match" color with the hexa's---

Hope this helps. Good Luck, and don't forget to show us your project.