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How to Use the Color Tools

This page provides advice on using ColorChecker and ColorShifter.

We'll start with an image of the flag of France.

How can we change this into the flag of Italy?

Well, first let's start by running the ColorChecker; this will tell us about the colors that make up this image.
What we see is that over 90% of the color in this image is made up of three colors:

ColorSamplePercentage
FFFFFF     33.1
002E7A     30.9
DF0028     30.9


Now to make this into an Italian flag, we have to change the blue to green, so it looks like we need to focus on color #002E7A. We'll change this to a #006321.

So run the ColorShifter with So in order to change the blue to a green, we'll have to do not just color #002E7A, but the colors close to that color. For our green color we'll
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