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Who's the genius behind that idea?

Once again, Quark decides that the common way of doing something is wrong and "fixes" it. :evil:

RGB has and will be, for the foreseeable future, spec'd as 0-255/0-255/0-255. Except in Quark, as it begins its long, inevitable slide into obscurity.

Good point, but I find myself asking the question, why would you want to use RGB colours anyway? If you're working on a Print layout you should use CMYK, and if working on a Web layout you should select Web Named or Web Safe Colours.

I've worked with both Print and Web layouts, and never needed RGB colours, so is it really so important?

adick:

Who's the genius behind that idea?

Once again, Quark decides that the common way of doing something is wrong and "fixes" it. :evil:

RGB has and will be, for the foreseeable future, spec'd as 0-255/0-255/0-255. Except in Quark, as it begins its long, inevitable slide into obscurity.

From the very first version of Quark (well I know Quark from version 3 I think but anyway) you can type math operations in any field. So to type 0-255 values in % fields, just add "/2.55" after the value.
Hope this helps!

Jean-Marie: Merci bien! Quelle découverte! Those of us who are amateurs at web design (why else would I use Quark to make web pages in the first place?) need to create RGB colors in Quark to mach what we're doing in other programs -- programs which actually use the 0-255 scale like everyone else on the planet.

I understand your need to match other systems. I suppose the thought originally was that percentages mean something.

Where I live, there are signs on the freeway warning you of a car pool lane violation of $271. What an odd number. What does that represent?

Likewise,  0-255. This is an escape from programming land (channels are kept in 8 bits: 8 bits means 2 to the power of 8 (256) different values).

In Photoshop, you can use the # field in the colour picker to enter RGB values in HEX, or 0-255, but CMYK is in %, Hue is in degrees, A and B chroma are in phase shifted 8 bit( -128 to 127) and luminance is 0-100.

Personally I like to use that colour picker to order up my pink in FF00E5 hex, but I would imagine most designers and artists would prefer a more human method.