Color Picker Question

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James Douglas
Jun 21, 2006
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I have tried to find this but will little luck. In the color picker there are various button above the R,G,B buttons.

I believe they are H,S and B are they Hue, Saturation and Brightness?

Next are the ones on the right labeled L,a,b ? What are they?

Anyone know a good site to learn more about color picker, in particular Hue, Values, Intensities and color schemes. I am learning this stuff but nothing
has clicked in so far!

Thanks,

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Tacit
Jun 21, 2006
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James Douglas wrote:

I have tried to find this but will little luck. In the color picker there are various button above the R,G,B buttons.

I believe they are H,S and B are they Hue, Saturation and Brightness?

Yes.

Next are the ones on the right labeled L,a,b ? What are they?

Luminance, alpha, beta. A mathematical color space that is designed to reproduce all the colors the human eye can see. The other color spaces, such as RGB and CMYK, can not reproduce every color the eye can see; Lab can (though of course your monitor can’t, since your monitor is an RGB device).


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BeTu
Jun 24, 2006
James Douglas wrote:
I have tried to find this but will little luck. In the color picker there are various button above the R,G,B buttons.

I believe they are H,S and B are they Hue, Saturation and Brightness?
Next are the ones on the right labeled L,a,b ? What are they?
Anyone know a good site to learn more about color picker, in particular Hue, Values, Intensities and color schemes. I am learning this stuff but nothing
has clicked in so far!

Thanks,

James, try the following website which will explain the color picker tool, and many more topics re: PS.
http://graphicssoft.about.com/od/photoshop/l/bllps503b.htm

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