Edit a selected color
Selective color edit lets you change one color in the source color space to a different color in the output. This is useful if you need to reproduce an individual color exactly (a company logo color, for example).
The selective color edit affects colors near the selected color in the color space. To preserve color gradient smoothness, you can increase this range of nearby colors. At the maximum range, a selective color edit becomes similar to a hue edit.
The selective color edit applies to the source color currently selected in the Color Information window.
- Click Selective Color.
- Click one of the following Color Selection tools
and use it to specify the output color:
HLC Entry - Drag the Edited marker to set the hue, lightness, and chroma (similar to saturation) values of the output color.
Coordinate Entry - Type the color space coordinates of the output color or use the spectrophotometer to sample the color of a physical object.
Profile Cross Section - Locate the output color in a graphical representation of the output color space. The color model (Lab or XYZ) that displays the color space is the same as the Profile Connection Space of the profile being edited. The cross-section is a vertical plane of the Lab or XYZ color space where all the colors have the same ratio of a/b or X/Y as the source color.