Hi All
I'm trying to match a colour. I have a small sample of the colour, which I've scanned in. I want to print out the final colour and so have a colour-matching issue across both the scanner and printer, though I'm not needing 100% accuracy.
From the scanned image I've found the 'dominant' RGB value and have made a simple rectangle in Xara (Pro X). What I wanted to do was make further rectangles with darker and lighter shades of this named 'base' colour. Once printed I can simply match by eye to obtain the actual value.
As the title says I can use tints of the base colour to make lighter variants but, as the manual says, I need to use 'shades' to get darker ones.
But I can't figure out what the two '%' fields represent when one chooses 'shade of another colour'. I've experimented by putting various values in the fields . The left field seems to relate to 'lightness' and the right field to 'darkness' and the manual shows values in both fields, but if my assumption is correct (and I don't think it is) then surely they'd cancel each other out - but they don't!
So what do the two fields represent and how do I use them to achieve darkening shades of the base colour in 5% steps?
Cheers
Andy
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