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Pick colors
Capture colors
Create & Edit Libraries
Add colors
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How to

Select colors in CODIJY

Choosing the right colors is the key to a successful colorization. If you want your photo to look professionally colorized, its colors should be:

    • historically accurate and match the time period
    • natural and realistic regardless of the object type
    • fitting into a particular concept or color  scheme 

In order to help you achieve your colorization goals on a high professional level, CODIJY presents a set of tools that help you to:

  • pick shades precisely in various color spaces, 
  • match the right shade for any photo object using ready-made colors,
  • capture true-to-life hues from the color images.

Watch a video about color matching tools:

Table of Contents

Overview of the color selection tools in CODIJY

If you look at the right panel of CODIJY, you’ll find palettes, color sets, and Gradient* Options. 

*Gradients will be discussed in a separate article. 

Color Picker and Color Libraries are two main tools of working with colors.

Colorizer Pro, the Pro edition of CODIJY also adds a tool for capturing colors.

It’s accessible from the lower right corner of the Color Picker.

History offers a way to access to document palette.

If the panels with main tools are hidden under tabs, you can bring them to the foreground or place them over the work area. You can open the closed panels from the main or the context menu.

Now, lets discuss these tools and their role in colorization process in detail. 

Color Picker

The Color Picker dialog in CODIJY allows you to match or edit colors in RGB, HSB, Lab, and YUV spaces. In particular you can use it to: 

  • pick/adjust colors using various palettes
  • play with color parameters
  • paste the HTML number of the desired shade

You can use the Color Picker in quite a variety of situations. For example, when you:

  • match colors for new masks
  • edit colors of the selected mask 
  • check parameters of colors picked from the Libraries or History
  • view parameters of shades copied from the color images
Add color to a Library

The color preview if the Color Picker in Colorizer Pro has an icon . By clicking the preview with the icon, you call the list of custom libraries to save the selected color to. 

Disable Auto-Accept Colors in Color Picker

By default, Color Picker is set to automatically accept new colors. 

However, you can disable this to make the Color Picker display new vs. current color before it gets accepted.

To disable Auto-Accept function go under the Tools tab in Preferences. 

Color Libraries

Color libraries are CODIJY’s primary color matching tool. They contain ready-made sets of colors and gradients for common subject topics.

Color Libraries facilitate and speedup matching tones dramatically. 

Compared to the set of 27 libraries in Recoloring, Colorizer Pro features 100 themes and variations, including people, landscape and urban features.

The Library window

By default, the Library window displays both colors and gradients. 

When needed, switch between to colors-only and gradients-only view.

Open Libraries in floating windows

You can open several Libraries in advance in the floating window with the click of the button next to the drop down list.