![]() If you go into that you're going to see what looks basically like another version of the color wheel. This is a handy way to create a custom list. You could see it will add that color to it as well. ![]() So I could go, select another color like this, go over back to here and hit Plus. I could also hit the Plus button anytime I want. I can click to select it and click again and I can rename it. Notice it takes the color that I've currently chosen here and it puts it in as the first element. So you can do New, it'll create a list there and I can go and rename it if I want to. Now you could also create your own list of colors. So you see colors and names and it could be a long list. You going to see names for all of these here. This one is color palettes and you can choose from several different color palettes like crayons, developer, an Apple set, or web safe colors. So this is one handy way to save colors that you're working on. So I can just go to some interface element or some part of an image I'm working on, click there, and it's going to select that color, put it here and change the color of whatever it is I have selected. Select that and now I get this special tool and I can select any color anywhere on the screen. Also I can use this little eyedropper tool here. I can click on one of these to change the current color to anyone of those. You can see now I've got three colors in it. You can drag and drop from there over into these little color chips on the right. This will show you the current color that's chosen. If you find a color that you like and you think you're going to be using it in several elements throughout your documents instead of having to find it each time you can go to the color chip here to the bottom left. Now before we get to these other two tabs let me show you how all the elements at the bottom work. You just want to go with the red or a brown or a blue. This is a quick and easy way when you don't want really want something specific. It's just a box of pencils and you can click on the pencil to choose a specific color. I'm going to skip to the last one here which is probably the simplest way to pick a color. You can also go to grayscale just to pick a gray color as a percentage. You can also switch to cyan, magenta, yellow, and black or hue, saturation, and brightness and set an angle for the hue and percentages for saturation and brightness. So you can set the hex color directly here. This is also handy if you ever use hex colors which you see commonly if you're a web developer. You can set the value for each one of these colors. So we'll start with looking at the red, green, and blue sliders. The next tab here shows color sliders and you have several different sets of sliders you can show. You can also set the opacity because this element can be semi-transparent. All the way to the left and it's full bright colors. So if you set it all the way to the right the entire color wheel becomes black. The first one is the Color Wheel and you can click anywhere in this wheel to set a color. Now there are five different tabs by default in the Color Picker. If you look at Fill here in the right sidebar, expand it and you can see the colors here and you can click the color wheel to bring up the Color Picker. So let's use this box here in Pages as an example. You can go in here to choose a color and then if you click More Colors it brings up the Mac Color Picker. Even Microsoft Word, on the Mac, uses Color Picker. It even puts a little dark theme on it and has some extras as well. For instance in Pixelmator I can click here and then click Show Colors and it brings up the Color Picker as well. The Color Picker is used in third party apps. In Mail I can click here and bring up a limited set of color chips and show colors to bring up the Color Picker. But this little color wheel here, if I click on that, then that brings up the Color Picker. For instance it's here in Pages if I want to change the text color, you see I can click here and bring up some color chips. So on your Mac you're going to see the Mac Color Picker everywhere. You'll find it in all the default Mac apps and also most third party apps will use the default Mac Color Picker. It appears anytime you want to choose a specific color. So you see the Color Picker on your Mac all the time. There you can find out more about the Patreon Campaign. MacMost is supported by viewers just like you. In today's episode let me show you how to use and customize the Mac Color Picker. Video Transcript: Hi, this is Gary with. Check out How To Use the Mac Color Picker at YouTube for closed captioning and more options.
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