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The Color picker

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The Color Picker

The Color picker allows you to choose colors to apply to clay in your scene. The Color picker only affects the Clay tool and Paint tool. Other tools cannot change the color of clay in your scene.

An image showing the Color picker.

Note:

If the Paint or Clay tools don't modify the color of clay in your scene, the clay color may be hidden by the current material. In the Material panel, edit the properties of the material assigned to your clay and make sure "Show painted color as..." is not set to None.

Select a color

The top section of the Color Picker allows you to adjust the saturation and value of the current color.

Use the Hue slider to modify the hue of the current color.

The bottom of the Color Picker shows the current color and gives access to the eyedropper. Use the eyedropper to grab colors directly from clay in your scene.

The eyedropper

The eyedropper lets you grab colors from clay that's already in your scene. To use the Eyedropper:

  1. Select the eyedropper.
  2. Hover the cursor over existing clay.
    1. 💻Click to set the color picker to the color of the clay under the cursor.
    2. 🥽 Use TT to set the color picker to the color of the clay under the cursor.

Note that the eyedropper grabs the color of the clay itself, it does not grab the color of the pixel. This means you don't have to worry about how lighting is affecting the clay in your scene to grab the correct color.

The Paint Bucket

The Paint bucket lets you apply the current color to all the clay in a selected layer or scene object. To use the Paint bucket:

  1. Select a color.
  2. Either select an object in your scene, or focus on a layer.
  3. Click the paint bucket.
  4. All clay in the current layer or object will be colored based on the current color in the Color picker. 

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