Colour View
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Colour View |
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Use the Colour view to set the colour of a colour device.
When a colour device is selected (in the Devices , or the Groups , or the Scene Table , for example), access the Colour view using:
| Main drop-down menus: | > Colour |
| Main toolbar: |  |
| Window tabs: | The Colour View tab may be available at the side of the Scene Table or the Channel Graph view. |
Use one of these methods to pick a colour for the scene:
Select one of the predefined colour swatches, or create your own colour swatch. Click OK in the Scene Table to apply the change.
Move the cursor to pick a colour. Click OK in the Scene Table to apply the change.
Type in the colour’s X and Y co-ordinates. Click OK in the Scene Table to apply the change.
The colour coordinates represent those of the CIE 1931 xy chromaticity diagram.
To display the grid displaying the XY co-ordinates of the colour, tick the 'Show grid' option.
Note: as you pick a colour, the following linked items all change:
- position of the cursor
- colour coordinates
- 'New' swatch colour
- Scene Table swatch colour
Select a swatch in the palette to pick a scene colour (then click OK in the Scene Table)
The palette contains predefined swatch colours and custom swatch colours.
The predefined swatch colours are red, orange, yellow, lime, green, cyan, pale blue, blue, dark blue, purple, magenta, pink, white, and turquoise.
You cannot delete or adjust a predefined swatch.
To move a swatch up or down the palette click the UP or DOWN controls (up and down arrows above the palette).
You can create custom swatch colours and save them in the palette.
These custom colours are saved when you save a Workgroup Design.
To create a custom swatch colour select a colour in the X-Y chromaticity diagram or enter the X-Y colour co-ordinates), and click the '+' control above the palette.
To delete a custom swatch colour select a custom swatch colour in the palette, and click the '-' above the palette.
To move a swatch up or down the palette click the UP or DOWN controls (up and down arrows above the palette).
To rename a custom swatch select the swatch name and click once (or press F2), type the new name and press Enter.
Use the mouse to drag the cursor
and select a colour. The colour of the 'New Swatch' and of the current
scene's swatch in the Scene Table will change as the cursor is moved.
Click OK in the Scene Table to apply the new colour to
the scene.
The black arc in the Chromaticity diagram represents the possible range of white light as the colour temperature changes. Note that part or all of the black-body locus may be outside the device's gamut.
As you select colour temperatures in the Colour Temperature View:
- the changes are shown in the swatch in the scene table, and
- chromaticity information for the device is lost, and the colour changes to a white light at the selected temperature. This means that in the chromaticity diagram, the cursor moves to the black-body locus (Planckian locus).
- if the black-body locus is outside the gamut, and 'Allow non-gamut colours' is unticked, it is not possible to edit colour temperature.
Use the mouse to drag the cursor and select a colour. Click OK in the Scene Table to apply the change.
If "Allow non-gamut colours" is selected (ticked), any colour can be selected in the Chromaticity diagram.
If "Allow non-gamut colours" is not selected (unticked), you can select only those colours that the device is physically capable of reproducing (the cursor remains be inside the Device colour gamut).
Use the mouse to drag the cursor and select a colour. Click OK in the Scene Table to apply the change.
Note: the chromaticity diagram used by Designer is a CIE 1931 xy chromaticity diagram.
The 'Old' swatch shows the colour currently stored in the scene.
The 'New' swatch shows the colour currently selected (but not yet stored). Click OK to apply the new colour to the scene. The 'New' swatch then becomes the same colour as the 'Old' swatch.
If this scene is recalled, the
colour of the lamp will not change. A crossed-out swatch (
) will be displayed for
this scene in the scene table.
The Ignore setting in the Colour Temperature view is the same as the Ignore setting here.
When editing scenes for a ‘live’ colour device, a black triangle on the chromaticity diagram shows the limits of the colours which the device is capable of showing, and the cursor remains within these limits.
Click/tick the box to remove the constraint (the gamut will be shown by a dashed line), and allow any colour on the chromaticity diagram to be selected (the cursor can be moved anywhere within the Chromaticity Diagram).
Show the grid displaying the XY co-ordinates of the colour.