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RGB, HSV, all these color systems are foreign language to me.
How can I get to the color I just want to paint with?
Well, the Color palette in Painter is designed as a purely visual selecting tool.
When you were in grade school, do you remember ROYGBV, the acronym for Red, Orange, Yellow,
Green, Blue, Violet? Well, that's all you need to know to use the
Color palette. Let's take a look at it.
OK, the Color palette is comprised of two basic parts.
It has the Hue ring and it has the Saturation and Value triangle.
To do this exercise let's find brown on here, OK?
I don't see brown, how do I get to brown? OK, the only little bit of information you
need to know and you really don't even need to know that because I'll show you
in a moment is that brown is actually a dark shade of red-orange.
So all I really need to do is kind of move around the Hue ring and eventually it's,
oh, look at there, I am in the Brown range, OK?
So the Hue ring just let's me get to the basic redness, greenness, blueness and all of the
ROYGBV colors of the spectrum, and once I get to it I then go into the Saturation
and Value triangle and locate the color I want.
So I visually found the color brown without having to know anything about HSV or RGB or
any of these other numbers. Now let's look at this a little bit more closely.
The way the Saturation and Value triangle work is that when I am going around on the
Hue ring the far right corner of the triangle represents this hue at full
saturation. As I take the second middle indicator and
move it towards the top left I am tinting the color or moving it to white,
and what is in the actual upper left corner of the triangle is the color white.
Conversely, as I move and go down towards the bottom left corner I am shading the color
or adding black to it. So when I finally get down to the lower left
corner, guess what color is in there? Black, and what you've got along this left
edge then is essentially a gray scale from black to white.
And contained within this triangle then are all of the possible permutations if this hue
in its varied combination of Saturation and Value, and so basically color is just
a simple two-step process. Find the particular hue you want to work with
and then you go in and you adjust it visually to get the particular color
that you want, and basically that's all there is to the Color palette,
a very simple visual tool for selecting various kinds of colors.