colours question...
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- Samush
ok i've had a look around in photoshop (CS3) and i can't find anything that will tell me how many colours are in my file. am i missing something here? is there another app/plugin (on mac) that will do it?
thanks for any help given
- voiceof0
Are you talking about pantone? If so photoshop isn't set up to look at colors that way it will break it down to CMYK, RGB etc...
Does photoshop say "colour settings" instead of "color settings" in england?
- Samush0
no not pantone, just cmyk and rgb.
is it possible to get photoshop to tell me how many colours are in my image?
in england photoshop says "color settings"
- horton0
how many colors? only if you're creating art using spot color channels. not cmyk or rgb.
- TheBlueOne0
I click on the unicorn icon. It tells you how many colors are in your image rainbow.
- Samush0
ah right ok. just wanted to know overall total colours of the whole file.
- ninjasavant0
You could go to Image>Mode>Indexed Color . . . and choose exact to see how many colors you have. This won't work on overly complicated images though. Not sure what the threshold is. But the key is that photoshop doesn't work in inks like illy does.
- horton0
sorry but back to photoshop 101 me thinks... how many colors are in this image:
- invisiblechamber0
it's written in the document title next to the image name, just count the letters.
- Nairn0
The closest thing I can think to this end is to analyse the Histogram, but ... meh, not really.
More to the point - 'why?'
- doesnotexist0
depending on the mode, there are 3 or 4 - RGB and CMYK
come on now
- johndiggity0
depends on the image compression or filetype you are using, provided you mean actual color values in the image and not separations or channels.