RE: RBG to hex colour

Excellent - I've been a Windows user since its inception, and before that an
old fashioned DOS user, but, for some reason, I never looked at the VIEW
Options in the Calculator.  I've been calculating the hex conversion
manually for years.  It's nice to know that learning a new way of doing
something doesn't stop.

Thank you very much for the tip

Shay

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-----Original Message-----
From: owner-hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org [mailto:owner-hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org]On
Behalf Of Katrina Lobbia
Sent: Tuesday, May 18, 1999 10:18 PM
To: hwg-graphics(at)hwg.org
Subject: RBG to hex colour


I don't know if anyones pointed this out before or not, but I was taught
this tasty little tidbit the other day, and thought I'd share it to those of
you that don't know about it.

This is for people with PCs, I do like macs, but I don't know of an easy way
for mac owners, sorry.

But for those of you with PCs, theres a nifty shortcut to calculate the
hexidecimal code for any colour.
If you look up the RBG numbers (like by double clicking on the colour in
photoshop) then open up the calculator that is installed with pretty much
every version of windows.
In the calculator, click on the "View" option, then select "Scientific".

This should enlarge the calculator, giving you lots of fun options. Enter in
the R number listed for the colour you want to convert while the radio
button is selected for Dec selected.
after you enter in the number, click on the radio spot next to "Hex" and
this should convert it to the hexidecimal code for that shade of red. those
2 characters will be the fist 2 in your hex code, Green will be the middle
two, and blue the third two.

nice easy, and no piece of paper and pencil required.
I've found this to be very useful, and thought you all might enjoy it as
well.

Katrina :o)


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