 If you want to know how to make better use of Apple's Color Picker, then this video is for you. Hello, welcome to Take One Tech, my name's Alec. Now, I did a series of videos recently, or I'm actually in the middle of making a series of videos, all about the green screen sharing in Ecamm Live. And I sort of mentioned in one of those that here is the hex code and the RGB code for some specific color. Then it was brought to my attention that I didn't actually explain how you even enter these into the Apple Color Picker or how you actually get an actual color out from these codes. So that's what this video is all about. It's how to basically use Apple's built-in Color Picker and the color palette and what you can do with it because I think most people just use the basic view that you have of it. And in fact, let me just bring that up. So if you are using Apple, you may be familiar with this thing. This is the color palette or the color picker. And you can obviously, whoopsie daisy, I'm clicking on my Ecamm screen rather than the palette itself. So most people know that you can click around here to select the color and you can see that we've got the color that's been chosen is appearing down here in this little box down at the bottom. You can also then lighten or darken the color as well. So you can shade it like that to change the brightness or the lightness of it. I'm using the wrong terminology there, but you know what I mean. You can make it lighter or darker. You can also change the opacity of it as well. And you can either use this slider to slide it up or down or you can actually change it and put in a specific value. So if you are doing something repetitive and you want to make sure you've got the value right, you can do it in there. Once you have got a color, then you can actually just click on it here and first of all, you notice that as I hover over it, it is actually telling me the code of it. But then also I'm going to drag it into here and you can just drag these into here and you can think of this as kind of like a global palette that then you'll have access to anywhere basically, so just colors that you might use often or whatever. And then because this color fill, I think is the technical term for it, the color fill palette, the color palette, the color wheel, whatever you want to call it, this is a sort of universal thing in the Apple system. So whenever you open other applications, then you will still have these colors here. But this is only really a sort of basic look at it. Now, by the way, one more thing that I should just mention in case you weren't aware of it is I've just opened up this. So this is now on another part of my screen. So this one that I've got over on that side, this side, this is just on another part of my screen and it's just an image basically. And what I'm using this for is just to illustrate the point that if I come back over onto the other side, which way do I point? I always get this wrong. It's always the opposite way, the way I think it should be and I still just get it wrong every time. This one on this side, if you see this little eye dropper thing or little sort of pipette icon here, where is it? That one, then if you click on that one, then you can then basically go anywhere on the screen and you'll notice, in fact, it's not quite showing up with my ProMars working, but basically you get a little magnifying glass and I can just pick any color from here. And as soon as I pick the color, then it will apply that over on the palette on this side. So now you can see that that color I selected has been picked. So if ever you've got an image or something like that and you want to grab a color out of that, then you can just use that little pipette symbol to go and grab that color. So that is how you use this basic version of the color palette. But there are, as you can see across the top, these other things here. And this is the one here, this color sliders. Here you've got a few different things that you can do. So we've got red, green and blue. So when in that previous video I gave the RGB code or numbers, you can just add those in here. So you can add whatever you want in here and it will just adjust that slider. So when people give you an RGB code, then you just come and put those three figures in here and you can obviously change it manually and just notice how it's changing this color down at the bottom. So this is what we're adjusting. So you can just basically adjust these. It's a bit tricky to actually play with these manually. So the only reason I use these is actually to just come and enter the code itself. But you've also got this other common way that people express color, which is the hex code and it starts with a hash symbol. Or pound sign, whichever way you call it. And so that is where you enter those in. And this always uses hexadecimal. So that is without getting into explaining the ins and outs of hexadecimal. It uses a combination of numbers and also the letters A to F as well. So that is where you would enter these codes in here. So you can see that that one's actually got an E in it. So anyway, rather than base 10, it's a different base 16. So that is that. And then also if we come up to the top, I should just say, there is different versions of these sliders as well. So as well as the RGB sliders, which is the one that I use most of the time. You've also got a few others. So CMYK, that's another way that people express color. And that is if you're working in print a lot, then you'll find that it's rather than stuff on screen. Then you'll find that that is usually in CMYK. And that is cyan, magenta, yellow and black, which is what is used in print. And then again, it's the percentage of those colors. So there you can see we're working in percentages. So there's that one. And then there's also HSB, which is huge saturation and brightness. So you can change those as well. And then the first one on there was grayscale. So that is how you can change to a particular grayscale. And there is keyboard shortcuts for these, which is CMYK 1, 2, 3 and 4. So when you are in this palette, you can flip between those as well. Now, the other thing about this is if somebody does give you an image or you've got something on screen and you think, hey, that's a nice color. I'd like to know what the hex code is for that. Maybe you want to write it down and remember it for later. There are people who do that in the world, you know. I'm telling you because I'm one of them. So the way that you do that is basically you're just going to come over here and use your little color picker again. Go back over to the image and you can say, hey, that's a nice color of green. And then you grab that. And then when you come back over to this side, look, we can see what the hex code of it is. So if you ever you want to find the particular color or the code of anything that's on your screen, then that is the way that you do that. So the next one along, I'm just laughing at myself because I'm quite sad about these things. And I do remember my own hex codes for most of my colors. So the next one, though, is color palettes. Now, this is something that I think is really underused. If you're doing lots of different projects where you have different color schemes and things like that, you can actually just create your own palette of colors. So a collection of colors that you're using for something. So in here, this is this one up at the top that looks like a series of different palettes. Now, there are a few built-in ones. So we've got WebSafe colors. Then which are the ones? Apple, these are the built-in Apple ones. So developer. So these are developer colors for like coding and things like that. Then we've got also which other ones we've got Apple. So some just basic Apple colors. So some default colors. And then which other ones of these are default crayons as well. That's another one, which is just a series of crayons. In fact, let me just jump ahead to crayons because that is a little icon in itself at the top. So this one that looks like basically pencils. So here you can see we've got a range of different colors. And it's very sort of visual, isn't it? Just to be able to pick the one that you want. And you can just play around with that and just pick out the one you want. So those are the crayons. And if I come back to the palettes for a moment, that is basically these colors here as well, these crayons. And they've all got specific names. So that is the built-in ones. I think that that's all of them. So we've got Apple, Developer, Crayons, WebSafeColors and TestPalette. Oh, that was one that I just did another time. The reason I did this is because I was asked the question by somebody. So I've just sent them a quick video with this answer. So I just thought I'd make a proper video. And TestPalette is the one that I did for them. So this is a better explanation than Michael. Just for your information, I've gone into a little bit more detail having thought about it. So how can you make your own palette? Well, simply, you come over to these little dots here. And as you can see, I've got a series of other palettes. So I make palettes for most of the things that I do or the main ones that I'm doing. So if I come over to these three little dots, and I'll click on that, and I'll click on New, then that will create this sort of blank area here. Now, all it's a case of doing is let's just actually create a palette from that image that I had up. So if I use my color picker, and I'm going to pick some of these colors. Let's say we're going to have red. And then so now we've got the red down here. And all you do is whatever color is selected down at the bottom here, you can come up to the top and click the little plus icon, and it will add it in. So there you can see it's added in as a color. So let's say that you have a series of things. In fact, let me just come in and quickly just grab a few more of these. And what I'll do is I'll just grab some from down at the bottom here while we're at it. I'll just pick these up from somewhere else, whoops. Like this. I'm just going to add a few more random ones in. That one I'll delete. So you can just press the delete button and it will delete them. But you could name these now as well. So if you've got a series of colors and you're using some for, let's say this one is for headings. This one is for body text in a website. You can add those in. Personally, these colors don't match at all. They all look quite atrocious together, but there you go. And then let's say this one is like background. It'd be interesting to just design a website now with these colors because it would look horrendous. And then this one might be like accent color or something like that. So it just means that you can give them all names. So it means that when you are looking at these palettes, maybe at a later date or something like that, you know exactly which color to use for which. Or if you're designing a website, then you can just come over and pick the one and you know, oh, that's my heading color. That's the accent color or whatever. And you can apply that also through documents. So if you're making a website and then you're also creating some PDFs or something like that to accompany it, then you're always sticking to the same color profiles or color scheme basically. I've just noticed when I added that in, it does default to saying unnamed. So let's click on these little icons here and I'll click rename. I've just realized that's actually sitting off the screen slightly, isn't it? Here we go. This is the dropdown. So that's where you create a new palette. And then this is where you click on rename and we can delete it. Or you can open as well. So if you have got these saved, you can save them out and send them to people and then they can open them on their side. So I'll just click on rename though and then let's call this t-o-t bid demo. So that is now called that in the dropdown. So if I just put this back where it should be on the screen. So now we've got that one in our list as well. There it is just there. And I can, as I say, just flip back to any of these. So this is a great way to open up different profiles and save your profiles. So recommend doing that if you're doing any serious amount of work or even if you've just got one thing, even if you've just got your YouTube channel or whatever it is and you've got a set of colors for them, just save them in here and you'll know you've always got them. Because sometimes if you start adding lots into this one down here it can get a little bit confusing. You can see that I need to sort this out. I've got three that look very similar there. They're ever so slightly different. There was three yellows, but yeah. So it's good to just keep a set consistent in one place and then you can always get to it. Next one along the top though is this image one. Now when you open this one up it will default to this and it says spectrum and here you can just pick out basically any color from the spectrum. So you can just click around here and get any color. But this is also great if you are doing some work maybe with a designer or a developer or something like that and they've designed you something and they send you through your color scheme or maybe you have seen someone else or maybe you've been on to the internet and searched for a color scheme or you've gone on to Adobe colors. Is it? I can't remember now. There's an Adobe product. I'll forget the exact name for it but where you get like a palette of colors then you can actually come on to here and just basically load in an image or you could load in any image. So if you've been out and you've seen something that looks nice maybe like a billboard poster or something like that that you think hey those colors look good or whatever it may be just taking a snap of something. By the way I've done that before as well thought hey that color scheme worked really well like in a magazine or something like that take a snap of it well then what you can do is you can come over to this one the one with a picture of an image and then you can just double click on here or single click rather on this and then it is from there new from file. So I can go new from file and then I'm just going to come in it just opens up the file opener and I'm going to find a file in here that I've got that I downloaded just as a sample and then add it in so that is basically an image of a color palette that I've added in and now basically you can just select whichever one you want from there so that's a great way as well if you do searches on Google to be honest if you search for like color palettes or things like that or maybe red color palette blue color palette whatever you want then you can find these sorts of things that I've got you know different mixes of colors that all work well together and then you can just add it in and then once again you can name this so rename this let's call this red palette it's not really red is it red and yellow and orange but there you go so we've got that and then so here you can save all of your different palettes in the same way that you could before and have a little drop down of them so that is pretty much what I wanted to show you and I hope that that explains a little bit more about how you can use Apple's color palette and so if I mention RGB codes in any of my videos in the future then hopefully it should make a little bit more sense now so I hope you found that useful and if you've got any other resources for colors or things like that so I will go and find that Adobe one that I mentioned because it's a free service and it allows you to go and actually make colors palettes that work together and pick contrasting colors and things like that and complementary colors and so on so I'll leave a link to that down in the description but if you've got any other resources for things like this then don't forget to leave those in the comments for my benefit and for the benefit of others as well so if you found this useful then while you're there obviously don't forget to like and subscribe and turn on those notifications so that you get notified the moment I make a new video I don't know if that's a good feature or a bad feature to be honest but I'm not really selling that I'm never mind that is all for now but I will leave a link to some more great videos over on the right hand side so until the next one have a wonderful day