Yep. Your value scale matches the Luminosity adjustments in Fireworks which uses the Windows Color Picker. I actually learned it as HSV (V for value, a scale from light to dark) not HSL
Ready to have your head hurt? There's a difference between the HSL (Hue, Saturation, Luminosity) color model in Fireworks/Windows Color Picker and the HSB (Hue, Saturation, Brightness) color model in Photoshop. In Photoshop's color picker, the Saturation value goes from pure color to white and Brightness goes from pure color to black. BUT Photoshop does have an HSL scale under the Image > Adjustments menu. So in photoshop to make your scale, you'd enter your hex values on the color picker to get the base color. Then go to Hue/Saturation under the Adjustments menu and move the Lightness slider. A +50 lightness will give you the exact same effect as putting a layer of white over the color and setting the white layer to 50%. The really crazy thing with the Hue/Saturation menu here is that NOW Photoshop's meaning of Saturation is the same as in Fireworks. Dragging the saturation down will turn it to a grey tone of the color. But what's really cool is that you can also oversaturate the colors in Photoshop which you can't do in Fireworks. So out of curiosity, are your corporate colors really those web safe values or are they some Pantone color? Photoshop supports Pantone colors in the color picker. Just open the color picker and click "Custom". -Kevin On 7/5/05, Ian Skinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So what I have done here [http://www.bloodsource.org/bugtests/colors.html] is > create scales of varying luminosities for two hues apparently without using > the luminosity tool. If so, this is exactly what I wanted; even if I did not > understand the term at the time. > > What, if anything, one would do with saturation I'll play with another day. > > > > -------------- > Ian Skinner > Web Programmer > BloodSource > www.BloodSource.org > Sacramento, CA > > "C code. C code run. Run code run. Please!" > - Cynthia Dunning > > ....-----Original Message----- > ....From: Kevin Graeme [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > ....Sent: Tuesday, July 05, 2005 2:32 PM > ....To: CF-Community > ....Subject: Re: For people who know the difference between salmon and pink. > .... > ....Hue = basic color. > .... > ....Saturation = how much of the "pigment" of that color is. With no > ....saturation, it's a grey tone of that color. > .... > ....Luminosity = Lightness of the color on a scale of black to white with > ....the color's tones in between. This is the oddest of the bunch since > ....how the computer represents it isn't really possible with paint > ....pigments (additive vs. subtractive color mixing). But a way to think > ....of it is to take the color as base and then mix black in to get it > ....darker and darker until you hit pure black and the opposite with > ....white. > .... > ....One of the problems for most people with computer color picking is > ....that we're used to thinking of subtractive color mixing. Or you can > ....think of it as reflected. We mix paint/ink pigments and put them on > ....paper. Light hits the paper and reflects back at us but has had some > ....of the wavelengths absorbed by the pigments thus subtracting them out > ....of the mix. If you mix all the pigments together, you get black > ....because you are subtracting all the wavelengths of visible light. > .... > ....The other approach is additive color mixing. Additive is when the > ....visible spectrum "primaries" of Red, Green, and Blue are mixed > ....together they create white. Since monitors use this method, the > ....approach to color mixing is a little off of what most people are > ....familiar with from school with paints. But it's an approach that many > ....photographers understand because they use additive light filtering for > ....color film development. > .... > ....http://www.normankoren.com/light_color.html > .... > ....-Kevin > .... > ....On 7/5/05, Ian Skinner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ....> So not the real question; what is "Hue," "Saturation," and "Luminosity" > ....and how do they effect a color in layman's terms? > .... > .... > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Discover CFTicket - The leading ColdFusion Help Desk and Trouble Ticket application http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=48 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:5:163007 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/5 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:5 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
