How to Get RGB Values From an Allocated Color
Digital cameras and graphic programs allocate colors to images according to the data input when the photo was taken or the image created. Many applications interpret and display colors by assigning an RGB – red, green and blue – value to each color. You can find the RGB value for any allocated color in an image using the free Microsoft Paint program on computers running the Windows operating system.
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Instructions
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Launch Microsoft Paint. Open the image file that contains the color for which you want to obtain an RGB value.
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Click the “Color Picker” button in the Tools group on the main menu ribbon. This button is labeled with a dropper icon.
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Click the color on the image with the dropper cursor. Microsoft Paint displays the selected color in the “Color 1” pane in the Colors group on the right side of the main menu ribbon.
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Click the “Edit Colors” button in the Colors group to open the Edit Colors dialog box. Paint displays the selected color in the Color/Solid pane below the color palette box on the right side.
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Read the selected color’s numeric RGB values from the Red, Green, Blue fields to the right of the Color/Solid pane. Write down the RGB numbers so that you can exactly reproduce the color in another program. To save the color in Paint for future use, click the “Add to Custom Colors” button at the bottom of the dialog box. Paint adds the color to your custom color palette.
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Tips & Warnings
Most graphics and photo-editing applications use RGB color values, while print design programs favor the CMYK color system. Web design applications typically use a third system of hexadecimal color values. You can convert between the three systems using an online color conversion tool; for example, convert a digital photo RGB color to the equivalent hexadecimal value for use in HTML code on Web pages you’re designing.
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