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darue — Basic Color Picking tutorial
Published: 2009-12-08 02:04:49 +0000 UTC; Views: 15612; Favourites: 297; Downloads: 505
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A simple tutorial about the nature of the color picker. Nothing too in-depth, but I figure I might as well explain some of the intricacies of the dialog that some may not know about.Lab color ftw!
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It's nice and good idea to have it as a reference.
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awesome tutorial but
how you now that 16,777,216 colors are the only possible color
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Well, there are 256 values possible values for each RGB input (0-255), and, since there are three of them, taking 256 to the third power will yield the total number of possible combinations, hence the total number of colors.
Read the wikipedia article on color depth for some more information: [link]
The color depth that is visible on a monitor is 32-bit (24-bit True Color), and is stated in the article to be 16,777,216 colors.
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This is a great tutorial. Its useful for more than just photoshop.
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Excellent. I have collected this for reference. Thank you very much.
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If I use a color that's not "web-safe" will I breaked the interwebz?
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Yes.
It means that it won't show up as that color when viewed from really old computers.
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and if you click and hold the Eyedropper (Color Sampler?) you can move around your screen (out of Photoshop) and pick any color you like ^^)
..just by the way
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It's very useful to me. I've been using ps for a year now, and there's so much to know about it!
Thanks for your tutorial!!
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Even for someone as experienced as myself in Photoshop, I found this a great refresher. Thanks for sharing!
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this is sooooooo sweet! thanks for putting it in such easy words
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Wow sweetie thankies youve taught me a few things in here i didnt know !
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very useful, but can i ask what does 'colour is not web safe' mean?
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Meaning, the color is not one of the colors that appear when "Only Web Colors" is checked. Clicking on the icon will bring you tot he nearest web-safe color to what you had selected earlier.
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Awesome tutorial. I've learned something new and I have used Photoshop for almost 7 years now.
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Very nice!
But there's a slight mistake.
It says:
G: -Blue
B: -Green
None the less very informative 
P.S: yes, Lab colour ftw 
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Whoops.
Thanks for the heads-up: fixed.
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Really?
What I did was take 2553. What am I missing?
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Ah, I see. I've fixed it in the tutorial now.
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I like!
I'm working on colouring my OC right now too! Perfect timing!
Like your sig too ><
Xeph
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