The Colour Picker appears as a floating window when you click a colour pot in the application. Using the Colour Picker, you can set the colour pot to the colour of your choice. You can pick colours by:
- Setting colour model channel values;
- Sampling pixels in a clip;
- Selecting a colour from the Palette widget;
- Selecting a colour from the Spectrum widget;
- Mixing colours in the Canvas widget.
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- Colour Patches: The colour picker includes three colour patches:
- The large colour patch, on the left, displays the currently selected colour.
- The smaller colour patch, on the bottom right, displays the original colour that was selected.
- The smaller colour patch on the top right, displays the previous colour that was selected.
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- The Palette Widget: Enables you to quickly select a default colour. Towards the middle of the palette, between the bold separators, you can select pure colours.
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- The Spectrum Widget: Enables you to pick contrast and saturation variations of a same colour.
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- The Canvas Widget: Enables you to mix and create custom colours.
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- Colour Values: Displays the current value of the channel sliders. These can be either numeric or percentage values.
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- Colour Model box: Toggle to select between the RGB or YUV colour model.
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- Mode box: Use to select how the numeric values represent each channel. Options are:
- Colour: Use a range based on bit depth (0-255 for 8-bit, 0-1023 for 10-bit, 0-4095 for 12-bit). Only available with Bit Depth set at 8-bit, 10-bit, or 12-bit.
- Colour %: Use a percentage value, relative to the entire range of the selected bit depth, ranging from 0-100%. Only available with Bit Depth set at 8-bit, 10-bit, or 12-bit.
- Range: Use the full range of colours in a 16-bit floating point colour space, entered as a floating-point number. The brackets enclose the 0-1 range. Only available with Bit Depth set at 16fp.
- [0-1]: Display the 0-1 range inside the full 16-bit floating point range, where 0 and 1 are enclosed by brackets. You can still use values outside the 0-1 range. Only available with Bit Depth set at 16fp.
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- Bit Depth box:
Use to select the media bit depth. Options are:
- 8-bit
- 10-bit
- 12-bit
- 16-bit fp
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- RGB / YUV Channel sliders: Use to modify the values of the Red, Green and Blue channels or the YUV channels, as set by the Colour Model box.
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- HLS Channel sliders: Use to modify the values of the Hue, Luma and Saturation channels.
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- Custom Colour patches: 12 custom colours can be stored using the "Add" button.
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- Pick button: Click to sample the colour of the pixel under the cursor.
- Average button:
- Click and drag to draw a box and sample the average colour of the pixels within that box.
- Alt+Click and trace a path to sample an average colour from the pixels under the cursor, along the path you traced.
- Add button: Click to save a sampled colour to one of the 12 Custom Colour Patches.