You can set the current color by selecting a color from the color palettes, editing the current color using the range fields, or by grabbing a color from anywhere on the screen.
To edit a color using RGB values
Adjust the RGB sliders or enter the RGB values in the RGB numeric fields.
To edit a color using HSV values
Adjust the HSV sliders or enter the HSV values in the HSV numeric fields.
To select a color using the color palette
- Click the Pick button (unless it is already selected).
- Click a square in the color palette to select that color.
To select a color using the color blending palette
Click in the color blending palette to select that color. If you click-drag within the palette, the current color updates interactively.
To grab a color from the screen
- Click the Grab button. The mouse pointer becomes a medicine dropper.
- Move the medicine dropper over the part of the screen you want to grab a color from, and click the mouse button. The grabbed color becomes the current color.
You cannot use this method to grab a color from a Show Image (that is, an image file that you are viewing using File > Show Image
) because the image’s window will close when you click it. Use the following method, instead.
To grab a color from a Show Image image
- Click the Grab button. The mouse pointer becomes a medicine dropper.
- Move the medicine dropper somewhere outside of the Show Image image window, and click-hold the mouse button.
- Move the medicine dropper over the part of the Show Image image you want to grab a color from, and release the mouse button.
The grabbed color becomes the current color.
To undo a change you have made
Click the Undo button.
The active parameter’s color is reset to the setting the parameter had when you first opened the Color Editor (or if the Color Editor was already open, when you first selected the environment, shader, texture, or light, or first selected the parameter).