The little boxes beside those represent the out-of-gamut alert ( cube), and the alert for colors that are not web-safe ( triangle). The smaller rectangular box with two colors next to the Color Field shows the original color and then above it, the new color you’ve just chosen. If you don’t have the values or are just searching for a color, you can just choose a hue, then pick as you wish. If you record any of those values, you can precisely enter them into the Color Picker at any time to bring up that exact color. That can come in handy later on, say if you want to precisely match a tone to adjust skin when tonal matching. When a color is selected, a little circle will display within the field, and the numerical values in HSB, Lab, RGB, CMYK, and hexadecimal numbers which represent the precise value.
That’s actually the key piece to understanding the Color Field, that left to right is saturation and up and down is luminosity. This is the section that takes up the lion’s share of the Color Picker real estate, that big square of color that gets lighter as you go up, and darker as you move down, less saturated as you move left, and more as you move right.
#COLOR PICKER TOOL HOW TO#
Half the battle of understanding the tool is just figuring out what the heck you’re looking at, because it doesn’t come with a key or legend to tell you what is what, so here’s the breakdown: How To Read It The Color Field
You can actually choose to work within four color models from RGB, HSB, CMYK, and Lab. Many will have surely become familiar with the switching of background and foreground colors when doing skin retouching, and in fact, it is invaluable to my skin retouching and tonal matching processes. At its very base, the color picker tool is just as the name suggests, a tool that allows you to set the color of various Photoshop tools, options, text, and foreground, background, and so on.
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