The Choose Color dialog box contains a variety of different color controls that combine to give you a versatile mechanism for experimenting with color in your SketchUp models.
You can activate the Choose Color dialog box by clicking on any color swatch in the SketchUp user interface (such as in the Colors section of the Model Info dialog box).
SketchUp allows you to choose between four color pickers: Color Wheel, HLS, HSB, and RGB. Click on the color picker that you want to use in the drop-down menu within the Choose Color dialog box.
The Active Color Well, which is below the Color Picker menu, contains the current color selection.
The contents of the Active Color Well are maintained as you switch between pickers, allowing you to use different pickers to create your colors.
SketchUp contains four color pickers, used to select materials that do not have texture (just color).
Note - Ensure that the Shaded or Shaded with Textures
display style is selected to see the colors that you have applied to entities.
The color wheel arranges color hue radially around the wheel, with the highest saturation at the outer edge of the wheel. To change the brightness of the color, slide the value slider to the right of the wheel up or down.
To use the Color Wheel, select the color you want by clicking your mouse over that color in the wheel. You can also click and drag the cursor around the Color Wheel to quickly browse through many different colors which will dynamically appear in the Active Color Well.
The HSB and HLS Color Pickers allows you to pick colors from the HSB (Hue Saturation and Brightness) color range. HSB often gives you a more intuitive color model for selecting desaturated colors.
Adjust the sliders for Hue, Saturation and Brightness until you see the color you want in the Active Color Well.
Sometimes it is easier to mix desaturated colors using the HSB or HLS Color Picker in conjunction with one of the other color pickers. Switch to another color picker to make your rough color selection, then switch back to the HSB or HLS Color Picker to fine tune your color.
The RGB Color Picker allows you to select colors from the RGB (Red, Green and Blue) color range. RGB colors are traditionally used when modeling color on a computer screen and represent the closest approximation of the actual range of colors recognizable by the human eye. RGB has a wide color gamut and is one of the most effective color spaces to use in SketchUp.
Drag the sliders left and right for each of the component colors (red, green and blue) to create the color that you want to use.
You can type in exact numerical values for red, green or blue in the value boxes to the right of the sliders if you want to precisely match a color that you have specified elsewhere.