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The heads-up Color Picker

The heads-up Color Picker - Photoshop Tutorial

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The heads-up Color Picker

I'm still working inside Tips from Sketchy.psd. The only difference is I've turned off the black layer and I've made sketchy active, because in this exercise, I'm going to go ahead and color sketchy, and I'm going to do that with the help of the new Heads-Up Display Color Picker inside of Photoshop CS5. But before I take advantage of that feature, I want to show you the more conventional way to specify color inside Photoshop. If you go to the Color panel which is available, if you go to the Window menu and choose Color, or you can press F6. The Color panel allows you to specify the dial in colors using one of four different models. You can work with RGB sliders that is Red, Green, Blue. You can work with HSB which is Hue, Saturation, Brightness. That's what I prefer to do most of the time and I'll show you how that works in just a moment. CMYK; Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, Black, and then Lab which is Luminance along with two arbitrarily named color axes which are called a and b. All…

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