Questions tagged [color]
Questions about colors, different color space, RGB or CMYK color model, transparent color, using or changing colors.
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How to change color reflected from clothing onto skin tones
The scarf in this photo used to be a very intense red. To change it, in Photoshop, i selected it and colorized and fine-tuned final color in Hue/Saturation/Brightness.
As you can see, there are ...
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What colors should be used for representing opposites? [closed]
For example 2 opposing Teams in a Video Game
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Any free website to convert Pantone 344C to Pantone TPX?
I cant find a website that can get me the closest match in TPX Pantone from Pantone C
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Turning desert map green in photoshop
I have only started using photoshop yesterday, so I have virtually no experience and no idea what I’m doing.
What I want to do is:
1- overlay a map of river paths on top of the desert map, and change ...
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How to control the color wheel with shortcuts in photoshop?
Is there a way to increase and decrease saturation/value on the color wheel with shortcuts in photoshop?
For instance, when I press "W" the slider goes up towards the white
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Importing an image in PDF format generated by R into Adobe Illustrator results in changes to the image's colors
I created a map using R and wanted to edit it in Adobe Illustrator. However, I found that some countries' colors were missing when I imported the generated PDF file into Illustrator.
The first image ...
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Inkscape unnecessary color change
I have a problem with the many color changes. I encountered this problem while trying to do a multicolored project. As you can see on the first screenshot it has way too many color changes which seem ...
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How can you get bright colours to print such as bright Cyan, Teal or Green?
I'm in the process of creating my brand colours and I want to achieve a bright Cyan but any bright colours just appear dull in CMYK.
There are 3 big brands I know of that use very bright colours in ...
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How do I go about colouring visited links?
I'm making a website for my software company. Originally, I made the "visited" colour for links a darker version of the primary link colour. Looking back, I decided that the dark blue colour ...
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How do I normalize all pixel values such that all pixel values are 'pulled towards' the mean?
Edit: I posted this question on the Computer Graphics site here per suggestion
I have a bunch of scanned document images and in each image there is a variance in background colour (sometimes a wide ...
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How do I set my StackExchange profile to use Dark Mode Theme?
Dumb question, but how do I set my profile to use Dark Mode theme?
I managed to do it for StackOverflow, but can't recall how I did it and can't find where to set it for this profile.
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Add transparency without lightening the color
I'm certain there's a more accurate term for what I'm seeking, but I'm unsure of what it might be. So...
I basically need to do this:
The image features a solid black background. On this background ...
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In GIMP, is there a way to select only one area by colour or one 'colour island' instead of all pixels by the chosen colour?
I want to select by colour but I only want to select one 'island of colour', not all pixels of the chosen colour.
For example, in the image below, how would I select-by-colour:
only the red colour ...
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What is the complementary color of yellow (Purple or blue)? Which model color for digital (RGB or RYB)?
I don't understand:
Using Adobe color wheel, the complementary of yellow (#ffff00) is
purple (#7D00FF).
Using Material Design, the complementary is blue(#0000ff).
I understood that it depended on ...
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Photoshop, How to replace colors overlapping over other colors and maintain the Levels without manually swapping the RGB Channels in Channels?
I am trying to figure out how one can select an area and get a grayscale as a result. But I don't even know what to do with the grayscale.
I have created a simple gradient, to create an example for ...
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How to expand a simple palette?
I grabbed a fun little neon palette from Paletton (below), and I want to try editing a photo (that I've reduced to a 256-color indexed colormap) to be in the neon palette. I'd like to get more nuanced ...
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How to change a logo to work on a similarly coloured background?
This is my logo, which usually also has the company name below it:
It is mostly used on either a white or a purple background. I’d like to use the logo on some clothing, like purple t-shirts, but the ...
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Dithering vs. noise overlay
I'm currently developing a web app that uses very, very dark images as background. To prevent color banding, I'm adding some randomized noise to the images:
Now, it's very easy to just overlay an ...
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How can I convert an image to 16bit high color in gimp?
I would like to convert an image in to 16bit high-color. I have gimp installed, but am also open to using web tools or even command line tools.
I read a question where someone suggested just using a ...
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A better way for a smoothly transition between highly and low detailed textures
I have the highly and low detailed pictures:
And I would like to make a smoothly transition between them, for exapmle, on the one side. I put them on top of each other (as laeyrs), make "Match ...
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Why is 50% black/white is 128, and not 127?
In the RGB color model, color values are represented in the 0-255 range. 0 is not a dummy value, so in the 0-255 range, there are 256 colors.
When using HSL (or something similar), I'd expect 50% to ...
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Removal of a specific colour from a photo
I am trying to print a photo onto basswood using sublimation. I then cut it to make a jigsaw. My problem is that the colour of the wood is "yellowing" the image once printed. I realise I ...
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How do you choose color such that it is as consistent as possible across devices?
I have an application and website that uses a certain orange color as the main background. Because I look at it all day, I am always surprised and sometimes put off by how it looks on other devices. (...
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How can I know the number of colors in a design?
So, I want to print packaging for my product. The owner of the printing press picks the colors in the design, and each color costs $80. Does that mean that I will use only 3 or 4 colors in the design? ...
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Gimp - Make all Cars Yellow
Let's say that I have a picture of 4 different colored cars. Black, White, Green, and light blue. I want to make all of these the same shade of yellow. If you ignore black I can use Colors, Hue-...
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How can colour streaking from scanner be eliminated using Photoshop?
Here is a scan of an album cover. The scanner creates bands of colour streaking at regular intervals horizontally across the image.
Is it possible to eliminate these artifacts using Photoshop, so that ...
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Two shapes with the same color code look different
I am creating a simple logo and I find even though the stroke color is identical hex, they both do not look the same in the document as well as when exported to a png are different. Both are set to #...
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Bringing the color palette of two pictures closer to each other using Photoshop
I have a picture (rectangle in the center) and would like to tune color of it to minimize the color difference with background. I've changed brightness and contrast, but can't get better match.
Or if ...
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colorize an area of (mainly) one color to a given target color in GIMP
I have the following image:
I want to change the colors so that they match my own Xylophone. Since there are in-between colors at the borders, just selecting a color and filling the selected area ...
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What does it mean to have two colors in the fill section?
What does this fill color mean? How did it come up? What is the use of it? There is no explanation in both The Fill and Stroke Dialog — Inkscape Beginners' Guide 1.0 documentation and Inkscape ...
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How to accurately isolate the hue of an image?
This began as a simple question but got confusing the more I thought about it. I hope somebody here can help me get it sorted.
I was preparing an image texture that was to serve a purpose similar to ...
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What is the 60 30 10 color rule?
What is the 60 30 10 color rule for website?
How to choose the best color scheme for your website?
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How to make watercolor illustration effect with white dots in this example?
https://vistria.com/
this site has the effect I am talking about
It's a watercolor illustration image and has a white dotted pattern on its ending and fewer dots on the center
I want to know how to ...
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How to change the color of all strokes in appearance tab at the same time
So I've built this wonderful neon glow, and the best way to make it look realistic is to build up a bunch of layers like this as shown in my appearance tab. At least every video and tutorial that I've ...
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PNG & PDF colors different on same printer
UPDATE: This issue has been resolved. The culprit was Acrobat DC Pro. I started noticing other issues when using the program. Did an uninstall/reinstall, and the colors are now printing perfectly.
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Color pallete names lookup for chroma.js
In chroma.js, there are named color palletes or 'scales' such as Viridis, Spectral, RdYlBu (Red, Yellow, Blue), Reds, Greys, etc. I know some of these are based on Color Brewer. However, I do not see ...
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How to/Help create a CIELAB color space wheel in Adobe illustrator?
I am trying to create an RGB approximation of the CIELAB color space wheel for a* and b*. I know that effectively the there needs to be an angular/conical gradient from a central point with Yellow (...
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Selecting colors for print design
I'm designing a brochure to be printed, so I'm using CMYK color system to design the brochure.
I bring all the colors from this website: https://mixam.co.uk/support/cmykchart
So I don't pick colors ...
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Remove blended text from raster image
I have this character I want to remove.
The interior of the character was generated using a known gradient map.
I can remove the character using content aware fill, but that does not take into ...
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How to find translucent colour from the background colour and fused colour?
I need to find the rbg values and opacity of a colour that is translucent. I have the RGB values of the background colour and the fused colour.
As you can hopefully see in the image above, I'm ...
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How can one transform a neutral lookup table texture for color blindness?
I want to add color blindness support on my Unity game, for this, the Color Grading effect appears to be the way to go.
This is the neutral lookup table, i.e. when applied, nothing changes, it's ...
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How do you invert gray values in an image, but leave colors intact?
I found this guide, but some reason, that only works for some colors, but not for others? What can I do?
Here is a sample image:
And here is what it looks like if I do the inversion:
Note how the ...
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How can I change the style of an image to fit it to a reference image?
I try to Photoshop the head of a person I have taken into a generated poster image that has a more drawn stylistic style... and although I assume it is a pretty simple task, I have no idea how to ...
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Image in ai. file changes colors to other elements
To put it short the situation is like this:
I have ai. file with graphic vector elements and an image in it. When I export the file to PDF everything is ok. When I delete the image from the ai. file ...
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Switching color range into another using Gimp and specifying hex values
I want to change the color of an object which has different shades of green into different colors and specifying hex as target colors. I want to change the object from green to any hex color I specify ...
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Finding the base color of one at 50% opacity
I have the color that's the result of another color applied onto a white background with an opacity of 50%. That color has the HEX #b4dcf7. Apologies if I'm missing something simple, but is there an ...
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How can I make GIMP export colours as I see them in my workspace?
I'm making a texture of a simple glowing orb on a transparent background. When I have everything looking good in the initial window exporting it to .png format leads to a loss of colour and detail, ...
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How to calculate colors which perfectly fits together rgb/ryb/cmyk/?
For my project (game) im trying to create a simple color palette of ~12 100% saturation colors and use those colors aswell with different saturation-shades-tints for less important elements. (goal: ...
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Finding non shiny dark color
I am developing a star chart. As of now, I am using pure black color (HTML #000000) for the background to display the stars on. I have a sample that was printed by Posterbrain, and that was laminated....
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Is there a program or tool that can determine the alpha value of a color given it's background and foreground color
I have a color that has a HEX value of 180031 or rgb(24, 0, 49). However, the color is supposed to be a shade of purple with a black background, but I don't know what the alpha value is.
Is there a ...
