Choose a color while painting – Adobe Photoshop CC 2014 v.14.xx User Manual
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3. (Optional) Select either the S option or B option to display the color’s saturation or brightness in the color field for making further
adjustments.
Choose a color using the RGB model
Choose a color by specifying its red, green, and blue components.
1. In the Adobe Color Picker, enter numeric values in the R, G, and B text boxes. Specify component values from 0 to 255 (0 is no color, and
255 is the pure color).
2. To visually select a color using the color slider and color field, click either R, G, or B and then adjust the slider and color field.
The color you click appears in the color slider with 0 (none of that color) at the bottom and 255 (maximum amount of that color) at the top.
The color field displays the range of the other two components, one on the horizontal axis and one on the vertical axis.
Choose a color using the Lab model
When choosing a color based on the Lab color model, the L value specifies the luminance of a color. The A value specifies how red or green a
color is. The B value specifies how blue or yellow a color is.
1. In the Adobe Color Picker, enter values for L (from 0 to 100), and for A and B (from -128 to +127).
2. (Optional) Use the color slider or color field to adjust the color.
Choose a color using the CMYK model
You can choose a color by specifying each component value as a percentage of cyan, magenta, yellow, and black.
In the Adobe Color Picker, enter percentage values for C, M, Y, and K, or use the color slider and color field to choose a color.
Choose a color by specifying a hexadecimal value
You can choose a color by specifying a hexadecimal value that defines the R, G, and B components in a color. The three pairs of numbers are
expressed in values from 00 (minimum luminance) to ff (maximum luminance). For example, 000000 is black, ffffff is white, and ff0000 is red.
In the Adobe Color Picker, enter a hexadecimal value in the # text box.
Choose a color while painting
The heads-up-display (HUD) color picker lets you quickly choose colors while painting in the document window, where image colors provide
helpful context.
The HUD color picker requires OpenGL. (See Enable OpenGL and optimize GPU settings.)
Choose the type of HUD color picker
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