There are three ways of presenting color in any image: decimal, hexadecimal
or RGB channels. These three ways produce the same result, so it's up
to you to choose the one you like most.
To find out RGB color value, use Paint program included into standard
Windows package.
- Launch Paint; open an image containing the needed color
- Go to Instruments panel; select Picker instrument
- Click the needed color to select it. This color will appear in the
palette as brush color
- In the "Colors" section of the main menu, select "Edit
Colors" menu item
- Press "Define custom colors" button. The window will expand
to present the color you have selected as well as its RGB numeric values
for every channel.
If you have selected pure red color, the values will
be: red =255 green=0 blue=0
To specify the color value in hexadecimal format, you have to transform
the decimal value of every color channel to a hexadecimal number and position
the results together starting with red and finishing with blue.
Example:
To get pure red color(red=255, green=0, blue=0) transform
red value to ff, green value to 00, blue value to 00. So, hexadecimal
code of this color is ff0000
If you want to transform color code from hexadecimal to decimal, just
transform hexadecimal color number to decimal one.
Example:
The hexadecimal code for pure red color is ff0000. Transform
ff0000 number to decimal number to get 16711680 (red color decimal number)
Note: To transform a hexadecimal value to a decimal one, you may
use "Calculator" program included into standard Windows package.
If you use some other graphics editor to find out colour code, please
refer to its help file.
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