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Color = Hue + Saturation

Color = Hue + Saturation - Photoshop Tutorial

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Color = Hue + Saturation

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- [Instructor] All right lets start by reviewing what it means to be color in the world of RGB imaging, as well as the specific world of Photoshop. Color, very simply, equals Hue plus Saturation. And Hue, as you may recall, is measured in degrees. Starting at zero degrees for red, and then continuing around this circle; 60 degrees for yellow, 120 degrees for green, 180 degrees for cyan, all the way back to 360 degrees, which again is red. Saturation is measured in percentages, from 0% for gray at the center of this color wheel, to 100% for full on color at the outside of the color wheel. So, for example, let's say I go to the Color panel, and I click on the fly-out menu icon in the top right corner, and I choose HSB Sliders. And then, I go ahead and grab my eyedropper tool, which you can get by pressing the I key. Notice that I've reset my sample size to point sample, so that I'm sampling a single pixel at a time. And I also…

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