Primary Color Correction: Color Control Primer - The Art and Technique of Digital Color Correction - page 103

Let's sample some pixels in a few images. Call up the “ChromaDu-
Monde_chart” and the “ChromaDuMonde_Warm_chart” in Color Finesse
or some other application that allows you to see the samples from an
eyedropper.
One thing to make sure of is that the eyedropper is sampling at a
color bit depth that you are familiar with.
One thing to make sure of is that the eyedropper is sampling at a
color bit depth that you are familiar with. Basically this means 8-bit for
most people. If you are used to seeing eyedroppered images with whites
around 255, then set Color Finesse for RGB 8-bit ( Figure 3.39 ) . In Color
Finesse, you set this with a twirl-down menu just below the eyedropper
on the right side of the UI ( Figure 3.40 ). In Color, the numbers do not use
an 8- or 10-bit scale but a decimal scale with black at 0.000 and white at
1.000.
Don't worry about viewing a lower bit depth scale due to quality
issues. The numbers are all being crunched by the application at a higher
Fig. 3.39 Set the bit choice depending on the numerical scale you're used to reading. 8-bit is a scale from
0-255. Video levels in that scale should be from 16-235.