Colourful pickings

Doing our recent webinars, Danny and I were surprised how many people weren’t aware of the colour picker in PJ Remix.

When you’re designing a digital page layout you can change the background colour of the page to any colour you’d like. This is especially useful if you want the background to match the edge of the image like this one.

Mac Colour Picker

Vista Colour Picker

This is how it works on Mac. In the Layout Tools pallet under Background Colour click on the swatch to bring up the operating system’s colour picker. Click on the magnifying glass (top left) to select a colour from anywhere on your layout (or anywhere on your screen!) and hit OK to set that colour as the background of your album layout.

I wish it was that easy on Windows, but the XP/Vista Colour Picker doesn’t grab colours like that. You need to enter the values yourself. I’d use the Photoshop Colour Picker to read the colour but maybe you have another utility that could do that.

• In Remix, select on the image with the colour you want to grab and click Open in Editor to open it in Photoshop.
• In Photoshop click Foreground Colour, select the colour and read the RGB values.
• Back in Remix, click on Background Colour to launch the XP/Vista Colour Picker, click on Define Custom Colours, enter the RGB values you read in Photoshop and and hit OK to set that colour as the background of your album layout.
• When you’re done, close the image in Photoshop without saving.

HTH, Nigel

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