5. Colors dialog

The Channel dialog lets you manage and pick up new colors. It is divided into five seperate parts: GIMP, CMYK, Triangle, Watercolor and Scales. You can use the eyedropper, which is the last button of the dialog, to pick up a color anywhere on you screen.

Overview

Introduction

Activate Dialog

The dialog can be called in many ways :

  • from the toolbox-menu: File/Dialog/Colors
  • from the toolbox: clic on the current Foreground or Background color
  • from the image-menu: Dialog/Colors
  • from an other dialog-menu: Add Tab/Colors

GIMP

CMYK

The CMYK view gives you the possibility to manage colors from the CMYK color model.

Triangle

Watercolor

Scales

Color picker

The color picker has a completly different behaviour, than the color picker tool. Instead of picking the colors from the active image, you're able to pick colors from the entire screen.