Tutorial for Pic Colors

Pic Colors is a tool for building color palettes starting with colors selected from a library image or camera . There are no limits on the number of palettes or number of colors that can be added to a palette.

As a screen device, colors are fundamentally derived using RGB/Hex color values. Set selector to choose color mode (cmyk, hsb (hsv), or rgb%).

This tutorial outlines the steps to create and edit a palette.


1  Pic Colors opens with live camera

Tools to help work in camera mode:
  1. Open Pic Colors and point camera.
  2. Use the flashlight to improve lighting.
  3. Center view, then tap pause button to capture a still image.
  4. Adjust magnifier zoom to better control color selected.
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Open Pic Colors. Controls for capturing colors are at screen bottom.
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Devices with a flashlight will show icon in lower left.
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Tap Pause in lower right for still image. Tap Play to toggle back to live camera.
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Zoom icon in lower right toggles magnifier from one pixel to an average.


2  Or, work off a library image

Tap picture icon in lower left to image library.

Tools in image mode:
  1. Tap picture icon in lower left to toggle open the device's image library. (Tap the camera icon to return to  camera mode.)
  2. Image size can be adjusted with pinch-n-zoom and re-positioned with drag.
  3. As in camera mode, drag the magnifier to find colors, tap the button at the bottom (showing the color to be saved) to add color to the palette ribbon.
  4. To make it easier to get a good match to a color in the image: [1] move the color dot to the color you want to capture; [2] drag the magnifier around in that color area; [3] when  the color dot "disappears" you'll know you've got a good match.
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Image is brought into Pic Color from Camera Roll.
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Use pinch-n-zoom and drag to get a closer focus on the image.
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Move magnifier to find colors. Tap bottom button to add to palette ribbon.
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Drag color dot to a color. When magnifier has color the dot will 'disappear'.


3   Use tools to refine palette

When finished picking colors, tap Palette icon in upper right to open list of palettes.

Palettes are shown as tiles. Long press to open tools to add more colors to the palette, duplicate, copy (to paste into another palette), and give the palette a name. Re-order palettes by hold-n-drag.
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Tap upper right Palette icon to open.
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Long press opens menu edit options.
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Hold-n-drag reorders list of palettes.


Tap on a palette to open.

A palette opens to a page with the color tiles. Tap '+' to add a new color or Long Press to open tools. In the 'RGB' button in the upper right is reporting the color mode being used, tap to change it to another. Tap a tile to open Color — here are the values in each color mode, choice of RGB or RYB color theory and associated harmonies and complements.
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Color tiles in opened palette. Tap '+' to add a new color.
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As with palettes, Long press for edit tools, hold-n-drag to reorder.
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Tap to open color details and RGB or RYB color wheels with harmonies.
When a cmyk or hsb (hsv) value is entered it is converted to the nearest RGB/Hex value — an alert appears if the the original value entered is modified on save.


4   Share PDF of Palette or Color Tile

Each PDF has a setting icon for control of content included on that PDF.
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Give Palette a name that will also be the header on Palette PDF.
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To Share Palette, tap PDF icon in upper right to preview.
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To Share Color, tap PDF icon. Tap PDF gear icon for customization.
In addition to the PDF, a color value can be copied to the clipboard to paste the Hex value into another app.
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