Figura 15.17. GIMP Color Selector

Con il selettore di colore di GIMP, si seleziona un colore facendo clic su una striscia monodimensionale posizionata presso il bordo destro della finestra, e in un'area bidimensionale situata invece sulla sinistra. La striscia monodimensionale codifica uno qualsiasi dei parametri di colore H, S, V, R, G, o B, in base a quale pulsante corrispondente situato nei pressi della striscia venga premuto. L'area bidimensionale codifica invece i due parametri di colore complementari.

Figura 15.18. CMYK Color Selector

You get to this selector by clicking on the CMYK icon. The CMYK view gives you the possibility to manage colors from the CMYK color model. If a CMYK profile is attached to the image, the profile will be used to determine the CMYK colors. See Soft-Proof Profile for more information. Otherwise, a "naive" color conversion will be performed.

Figura 15.19. Aquarelli : Selettore di colore

This selector is a little different than the other models. The principle consists in changing the current foreground color by clicking in the rectangular palette. If the current foreground color is for example white, then it turns reddish by clicking in the red color area. Repeated clicking strengthens the effect. With the slider, which is next to the color palette, you can set the color quantity per mouse click. The higher the sliding control is, the more color is taken up per click.

Figura 15.20. Wheel Color Selector

This selector uses the HSV color model. Click in the chromatic circle and drag the mouse pointer to select the Hue. Click-and-drag in the triangle to vary the Saturation (vertically) and Value (horizontally).

Figura 15.21. Tavolozza : Selettore di colore

This color selector brings up a list of the colors from the current palette in the Palettes dialog. You can set GIMP's foreground or background colors by clicking on colors in the colors display. You can also use the arrow keys to move within the list of colors.

Figura 15.22. Scales Color Selector

This selector displays a global view of the R, G, B channels and either the H, S, V or L, c, h values, placed in sliders. The numbers can be represented as 0 to 255 or 0.0 to 100.0 ranges.

Magenta areas on the sliders indicate colors that are out of gamut. This means that the value on the slider would mathematically define a color that does not exist in your chosen color profile. For more information, see Gamut. If you move a slider to a value that is out of gamut, the color remains set to the last in-gamut color that you selected.

	Nota
	You can set which color is used to mark out of gamut colors in the Soft-Proofing Preferences.

The symbol consisting of two arrows allows you to exchange the foreground and background color. At the bottom left of this icon, below the foreground color block, you find a switching surface with two small, one black and the other white, partially overlapping squares. If you click on these, the front and background color are reset to black and white respectively.

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

Il rovescio della medaglia è che si ottengono i colori dopo che sono stati elaborati dalla pila di colori dell'intero sistema, in particolare la gestione del colore. Significa che i valori di colore risultanti potrebbero risultare diversi da quelli restituiti dallo strumento di selezione dei colori quando si passa sopra l'area di disegno. Sta a voi fare una scelta informata di quale selettore di colori da usare.

This is a text field with six characters. See HTML notation. You can also use the CSS keywords; enter the first letter of a color to get a list of colors with their keyword:

Figura 15.23. Esempio di parolechiavi CSS

Right-clicking in the HTML Notation text box opens a context menu that allows you to edit your notation, particularly to paste a complex notation you have copied elsewhere.

Twelve buttons at the bottom show the last used colors. You may choose a color by clicking on one of these buttons or add the current foreground or background color to this history list.