Color when editing Layer

[Lotharen]

I'm doing some photo-manipulation and want to use the outter glow effect on my layer. However, I'm not seeing a way to select the RGB value for the color I want - all I've seen is the eye dropper tool. Is there a way to accurately select a color and I'm just not seeing it - perhaps and option I need to check. I'm bound and determined to use this instead of Photoshop but its been hard for me to find any information when I searched and I'm usually rather good about that kind of stuff. So I've come to the community for help since I'm at my wits end trying to figure this out.

Thanks in advance for pointing me in the right direction - I just wish there was more tutorials about the program out there.

[trueblue]

You could try using Layer Styles. Click on the layer to open Layer Properties. Choose Layer Styles. Choose Outer glow then the colour you want.

[Lotharen]

You could try using Layer Styles. Click on the layer to open Layer Properties. Choose Layer Styles. Choose Outer glow then the colour you want.

That's what I'm doing. But its the color picker...what if I need to do the effect on more than one thing - how do I keep the colors the same instead of guessing I'm picking the exact shade of say - red.

[LeviFiction]

Trueblue, unless I've missed something. Outer Glow is only available in layer styles. So the only place they could be having this problem is within the layer styles dialog.

Lotharen - There is and there is not a way to select a very specific color. It took three whole versions of PSP before we even got sliders and numerical readouts for most of the effects.

Loosely speaking, the dialog does not provide any way to select a specific color based on RGB, HSL, or any other method. All you have is an eye-dropper. But there are ways to use that eyedropper to get the color you want.

Also, you can use scripting if you wanted. But for now I'll stick to the eye-dropper.

To use the eye-dropper to select a specific color is kind of hacky but easy to do. The eye-dropper can sample colors directly from the layer you're editing.

1) In the Materials dialog pick the color you want to use as the outer glow.

2) Select a blank space on the layer and add a quick dab of color with the paint brush.

3) Go into the layer effects and use the eye-dropper on that dab to select the color you want.

4) Accept the layer changes

5) Erase the dab of color.

[Lotharen]

Trueblue, unless I've missed something. Outer Glow is only available in layer styles. So the only place they could be having this problem is within the layer styles dialog.

Lotharen - There is and there is not a way to select a very specific color. It took three whole versions of PSP before we even got sliders and numerical readouts for most of the effects.

Loosely speaking, the dialog does not provide any way to select a specific color based on RGB, HSL, or any other method. All you have is an eye-dropper. But there are ways to use that eyedropper to get the color you want.

Also, you can use scripting if you wanted. But for now I'll stick to the eye-dropper.

To use the eye-dropper to select a specific color is kind of hacky but easy to do. The eye-dropper can sample colors directly from the layer you're editing.

1) In the Materials dialog pick the color you want to use as the outer glow.

2) Select a blank space on the layer and add a quick dab of color with the paint brush.

3) Go into the layer effects and use the eye-dropper on that dab to select the color you want.

4) Accept the layer changes

5) Erase the dab of color.

I came to this conclusion last night before going to bed but didn't have enough time to test it out. Thanks for sharing and hopefully one day they will add the feature I'm speaking of.

[trueblue]

When you have selected a particular colour, save it with a specific name. It will show in the drop box in Layer Properties. Do a save for each colour. I applied a different layer style colour to each layer of the duplicated image.

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