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Entering the exact target Color in the Colour Editor

Andrew Maier
I have a series of cityscapes where I would like to make the sky have the same blue. My naive thinking would be to select the color of the blue I want to have in all the other pictures, note down the RGB value, then go to the next picture and select a blue in the Color Editor, then move the blue to the target value I noted down earlier.

I would assume the easiest way would be to enter the target color from the values I noted down beforehand in the Color Editor. But it appears that I cannot do this (Or at least I have not found a way to do so). Using the controls is surprisingly difficult to really match the same color (at least for me 😄 )

How would I go along to achieve this. Is there perhaps a simpler way and I am making things too complicated? I assume matching colours must be something which has to be do regularly, e.g. in a commercial context like advertising.

Thanks for any help.

Andrew
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    [quote="atwm" wrote:
    I assume matching colours must be something which has to be do regularly, e.g. in a commercial context like advertising.


    capture one does not have the tools to acomplish this task. color matching in commercial photography is done with photoshop, hsb readout is a must. if you don't have access to photoshop try the skin tone tool. sample the color you want and use a high hue setting then you only need to copy it to your images this should work.
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  • Ian Wilson
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    I agree - skin tone should work. It can be used to match the colour of anything, not just skin.

    Beware - it's slightly confusing because there are two things labelled "skin tone". What you need is the skin tone tab on the white balance tool. Use it by finding an image that has the right shade of blue. Check the box that says "Click to create new" and use the picker to sample the colour. You need to save it under some suitable name "Andrew's special blue" or whatever. Then you make sure the drop down list in the tool is set to that colour, and use the picker (without the check box selected this time) to click the object that has to be that colour in successive images. It works by setting the white balance by matching a colour instead of by matching a neutral grey like the regular white balance picker does.

    Ian
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    [quote="Ian3" wrote:
    I agree - skin tone should work. It can be used to match the colour of anything, not just skin.

    Beware - it's slightly confusing because there are two things labelled "skin tone". What you need is the skin tone tab on the white balance tool. Use it by finding an image that has the right shade of blue. Check the box that says "Click to create new" and use the picker to sample the colour. You need to save it under some suitable name "Andrew's special blue" or whatever. Then you make sure the drop down list in the tool is set to that colour, and use the picker (without the check box selected this time) to click the object that has to be that colour in successive images. It works by setting the white balance by matching a colour instead of by matching a neutral grey like the regular white balance picker does.

    Ian


    I did suggest the skintone tool because I know it works and not the white balancing tool wb shifts to much colors
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  • Andrew Maier
    [quote="Horseoncowboy " wrote:
    [quote="atwm" wrote:
    I assume matching colours must be something which has to be do regularly, e.g. in a commercial context like advertising.


    capture one does not have the tools to acomplish this task. color matching in commercial photography is done with photoshop, hsb readout is a must. if you don't have access to photoshop try the skin tone tool. sample the color you want and use a high hue setting then you only need to copy it to your images this should work.



    Thanks a lot. I had assumed, that I would have to misuse the skin tone tool. But that cannot be applied to an adjustment layer as it seems. I have a layer of the sky as a mask. Seems I have to go to Photoshop ☹️ (In fact it will be Affinity Photo and not Photoshop, since I am trying to wean myself off Adobe products, so I can cancel my Creative Cloud subscription

    Thanks again!!
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    [quote="atwm" wrote:


    Thanks a lot. I had assumed, that I would have to misuse the skin tone tool. But that cannot be applied to an adjustment layer as it seems. I have a layer of the sky as a mask. Seems I have to go to Photoshop ☹️ (In fact it will be Affinity Photo and not Photoshop, since I am trying to wean myself off Adobe products, so I can cancel my Creative Cloud subscription

    Thanks again!!



    sorry seems I was not clear in my post I do recommend the "skintone tool" - the one which works on a layer ! the white balance skintone tool does not even really work with skin tones.... but affinity is for sure the better option anyway.
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  • Ian Wilson
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    It occurred to me that you could use the skin tone tab on the WB tool to get the sky colour right (and don’t worry about the WB of the rest of the image yet). Then create a local adjustment layer from the blue colour selection. Then invert the mask and do a local adjustment of the WB of the rest of the image. But maybe a bit long-winded?

    Ian
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