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Matching Transparent Color to Solid Color


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I have a solid green rectangle.
I would like to create several similar green rectangles at various levels of transparency that will perfectly match the color of the solid green rectangle. Is there an easy way to do this?

I have tried matching it by eye, and can get very close:
the original solid green rectangle is R:135 G: 174 B: 155

after making a copy of the solid green rectangle, say, 90% transparent, I can play with Hue/Saturation to get around R:136 G:175 B: 154, according to the eyedropper. But I don't see any way of fine tuning the RGB/HSB/etc. absolute values in the transparent version.

Am I using the wrong tool? Should be using Replace color? Match color?
 
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mfox said:
Did you create this shape or did u find it on the web?
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It is just a rectangle I created in Photoshop. The issue is, it is a corporate color that I need to match. But I want the matching rectangles to have varying degrees of transparency (opacity), but still match the solid color exactly.
 
kjk said:
It is just a rectangle I created in Photoshop. The issue is, it is a corporate color that I need to match. But I want the matching rectangles to have varying degrees of transparency (opacity), but still match the solid color exactly.
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just duplicate that layer and change the opacity

Note:changing the opacity they wont be the exact color its going to mix with whatever the background color is.
 
mfox said:
just duplicate that layer and change the opacity

Note:changing the opacity they wont be the exact color its going to mix with whatever the background color is.
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The background is white. The whole idea is to get the new colors of the transparent rectangles to exactly match the solid color.

So, if I have 4 layers, with one rectangle on each layer:
Layer 1: Color rectangle at 100% opacity
Layer 2: Color rectangle at 90% opacity
Layer 3: Color rectangle at 75% opacity
Layer 4: Color rectangle at 50% opacity
Background Layer: White

I want all the rectangles to match exactly (as far as the eyedropper is concerned :p )
 
No the eyedropper reads the color as is, ur honestly confusion me because what you say contradicts what you want to do.

 
So you have four green squares, all of different transparencies. That is the easy part. They all LOOK different.


I want them to all LOOK exactly the same. That means their actual color values (before being made transparent) have to be DIFFERENT colors. When I make them different transparencies, I want them to LOOK like 4 color squares exactly the same color.
 
Hi. I am curious if you found out a better method than matching by eye. Please let me know if so. Thanks.
 
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