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The color picker provides you with the following controls:

 

The color wheel enables you to select the targeted hue for the color. When you

 

click within the color wheel, the hue will immediately change to the color that you

 

clicked on. By clicking and dragging on the gripper edge along the outside edge of

qColor Wheel

the wheel, you can precisely rotate the hue to modify the current selected color.

 

The top of the color triangle points to the hue of the color that is selected. The

 

color triangle will then be updated with the range of saturation and lightness that

 

you can affect for that newly selected color.

 

The color triangle provides you with control over the saturation and lightness of

 

the hue of the color that was selected with the color wheel. The top of the color

 

triangle represents 100% saturation of the targeted hue. The left edge of the color

wColor Triangle

triangle provides you with control over the lightness of the color as the color

approaches white, while the right edge of the color triangle provides you with

 

 

control over the lightness of the color as the color approaches black. The bottom

 

edge contains neutral colors, with the middle of the bottom edge presenting

 

middle gray.

eRGB Selection

The RGB selection boxes display the current color’s red, green, and blue values. You

can change the targeted color by entering different values directly into the RGB

Boxes

selection boxes.

 

rHSB Selection

The HSB selection boxes display the current color’s hue, saturation, and brightness

values. You can change the targeted color by entering different values directly into

Boxes

the HSB selection boxes.

 

tLAB Selection

The LAB selection boxes display the L channel (luminosity), the a channel (green

through red), and the b channel (blue through yellow) values. You can change the

Boxes

targeted color by entering different values directly into the LAB selection boxes.

 

 

 

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