Is there a way to mix colors in PE4?

[Laughing Dragon]

Hi, me again. I'm trying to choose a color for a particular comic character I've created, and I can't find the right shade of yellow for it. The palette in PS4 has 4 yellows, but not the right yellow. (I want a sort of golden yellow, not a flat yellow). Can I mix colors, beyond just layering one color on top of another? Can I mix up a special yellow and then save it for future use? (In "real life", I'm a good painter in oils and watercolor, and I've always been able to create colors just fine with brush and chalks, but man, with PE4 it's not so easy...!)

Plus I just want to give an example of the effect I'm looking for when I talk about creating comic art on PE4:

http://grim.snafu-comics.com/

The artist behind that page is obviously quite skilled, and he says he uses Photoshop. But how does he get those effects - the blue glow, the shading on the hair, and so on? I wish he'd do a tutorial but he hasn't so far...

[efarnstrom]

I recently found something in the color swatch pallette that you might also have on v4; I have it on v5 and v6. There is a drop-down arrow that you can select from several swatch types. Several web-hues, web-safe colors, web-spectrum, as well as a Windows and one I added later. You may find just what you want there.

Thanks for your question. Let us know if this works.

[emkayess65]

Hi Laughing Dragon, have you tried the color services on the web?
There are lots of them.

http://2dos.homepage.dk/htmljava/c.html
http://beta.dailycolorscheme.com/


http://www.degraeve.com/color-palette/
http://www.colourlovers.com/

http://www.pixentral.com/hosted/1g1ns5M5W5Z4nmMWkR5S4OAXXsLWxs_thumb.jpg (http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1g1ns5M5W5Z4nmMWkR5S4OAXXsLWxs)

Stuff like this?

[cats4jan]

How about fooling with hue/saturation

Open a square - color it yellow - and go to

enhance> adjust color> hue saturation

If you get the color you want, save it in your color swatches palette

Or have you found the proper color on something else?

Just clicking on it with the color picker will change your foreground color to that color.

[TonyW]

Another way that can be quite useful is to have Elements open and not in maximize mode (so you can move the Elements Window and see for example a web page that you have open). If you then click the eyedropper on your Elements image and drag it out to the web page it will pick up the color you want from the web page. You can then add that color to your color swatches. I've found that a useful way to save any color you see that you like.

Tony

[Laughing Dragon]

Wow! It worked beautifully. I found just the shade of yellow I wanted on the web, made a color swatch of it and added it to my palette! Perfect. I think I'm gonna like PE4...thanks so much for your help, everyone!!!