DigitalColor Meter

The DigitalColor Meter (Figure 30) enables you to measure colors that appear on your display as RGB, CIE, or Tristimulus values. This enables you to precisely record or duplicate colors that appear onscreen.

✓ Tip

A discussion of color technology is far beyond the scope of this book. To learn more about how your Mac can work with colors, visit the ColorSync page on Apple’s Web site, www.apple.com/colorsync/.

To measure color values

1.
Open the DigitalColor Meter icon in the Utilities folder (Figure 1) to display the DigitalColor Meter window (Figure 33).
Figure 33. The DigitalColor Meter can tell you the color of any area onscreen–in this case, one of the pixels in its icon.

2.
Point to the color onscreen that you want ...

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