Choosing colors by using the Color Picker

When you edit images in Corel PaintShop Pro, you often need to choose a color before painting, drawing, or filling, making manual color corrections, or choosing a background for a new raster image. The Color Picker is the most versatile tool for choosing colors.

The Color Picker appears when you click the Foreground/Stroke Properties box, the Background/Fill Properties box, or one of the two smaller Color boxes. It also appears when you click a Color box found in other dialog boxes.

The Color Picker

The appearance of the Color Picker depends on the color depth of the active image (16 bits/channel, 8 bits/channel, 256 colors, 16 colors, or 2 colors).

The Color Picker offers many ways to select colors:

By default, Corel PaintShop Pro displays decimal (base 10) numbers in the Color Picker. You can also display hexadecimal (base 16) numbers — the format of HTML color codes. For more information about display and caching options, see Setting Display and Caching preferences. For more information about color and how it is perceived, displayed, and printed, see Understanding color and color models.

To choose a color by using the Color Picker Back to Top

Edit workspace 

 

Type values in the R, G, and B boxes.
Type values in the H, S, and L boxes.
Unmark the Link Colors check box to display the selected color in the drop-down slider for each RGB or HSL value (for example, the Red slider displays only degrees of red, from 0 to 255). Mark the Link Colors check box to display the current color in combination with the other two colors.

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You can also choose a color directly on the Frames tab or the Rainbow tab of the Materials palette. The Frames tab contains a more compact, rectangular version of the color wheel and its controls. The Rainbow tab presents every available color. Click to choose the foreground color, or right-click to choose the background color.

You can access recently used colors by right-clicking the Color box on the Materials palette. In the Recent Colors dialog box, click Other to display the Material Properties dialog box.

To use the current colors with all tools, mark the All tools check box on the Materials palette. If you unmark this check box, the current materials are used by the active tool only.


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