HSV Color Picker?

[melbendi]

Could someone please tell me if InDesign has allows creating colors using HSV values? I dn't see it in the picker.
Also, this may be a dumb question, but could someone please tell me if there's a way to search one particular forum?  The top left corner of the this forum shows a magnifying glass, but it seems you have to search all forums at once and can't limit it to one particular forum.  Thank you!

[Mike Witherell]

InDesign doesn't do HSB.

[melbendi]

Wow, that's surprising. This is a long shot, but do you know if there's a way to link the RGB values to make it possible to lighten or darken a color without changing hue? Or is there some trick for this, short of overlaying a transparent copy of the shape or text object in black or white?  I imagine the best work-around would be to translate the color values in a software that offers HSB as well as RGB/CMYK and copy them into InDesign.

[Laubender]

Hi kalibahlu ,

you may find some answers here:

HSB color picker

Regards,
Uwe

[rob day · Accepted solution]

This is a long shot, but do you know if there's a way to link the RGB values to make it possible to lighten or darken a color without changing hue?

In case you missed it in the link Uwe posted, use the L radio button with a & b set to 0. In that case the slider next to the color field will change the lightness value while keeping the color neutral. The L radio button is similar to H in an HSB model

[melbendi]

Thank you, Uwe and Rob.  I'm sure I'm misunderstanding something, but I tried this, and as soon as I change a & b to 0, the hue is already shifted, and then adjusting L changes the hue more,  As you said, Rob, L is like H, but I think I need something that's like B... right?  I trust that this works for you, so I'm sure I'm missing it somehow.   EDIT:  OK, I get it now.  I didn't check the l radio button before.  I found it works if I check the radio button for L, but leave a & b alone to keep the correct hue. 
Thank you both for this information!  It's just what I needed!