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Color basics

Color basics - Photoshop Tutorial

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Color basics

- [Instructor] There are a number of really great ways to select colors in Photoshop, so let's take a look at a few of them and then you can pick your favorite. I'm going to start with the Color Picker from the bottom of the toolbar. I'll click on the foreground color, that brings up the Color Picker, and then I can click and drag in the left-hand side here in this square in order to choose the saturation and the brightness. If I want to change the hue I can use this little elevator ramp. There are many ways that we can look at color in the Color Picker. So if you prefer to view it by one of the other color models we can just click in the little radio buttons by any of the different options. I'm going to leave it now set to hue however. If you need to only view your web colors we can invoke the Only Web Colors and now when you select a color you know that it will be web safe. And when you select it it also…

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