Color Matching Guide

Overview

Color is really important in product pictures. However, sometimes it's hard to get it right because of lighting and other factors. If the colors are wrong, people might send the product back, which is bad for business. Color Matching can help fix these color problems.

This article will walk you through 4 main sections:

1. How Color Matching Works at Pixelz

2. Adding Color Matching to Your Specification

3. Creating An Order With Color Matching

4. Tips: Keyboard Shortcuts

How Color Matching Works at Pixelz

Color Matching is the process of making sure a product's color matches a reference file or a specific value like RGB and Pantone. For example, if you have six different images of the same product taken at different times, you can use one authoritative image with accurate color as a reference to make sure all the other images show the same color.

Instead of adjusting every single image separately, you can adjust one example of each product and use it as a reference image in the Color Matching tool in your Pixelz account. The Color Matching add-on lets you group images together and assign a color reference image to each group. Our retouchers will then use the reference image to adjust the other images to match it.

Color Matching is available on our Professional plan and costs $0.75 per image or an equivalent price in your local currency. 

Adding Color Matching to Your Specification

There are two ways of adding color matching to your specifications, depending on your image volume.

1 - If the volume is not too high, you can add this additional service (add-on) to your specification by following the easy steps below. You can find Color Matching in the Add-ons section when creating a specification. Simply click "Add", select the add-on, and hit "Save".

To add Color Matching to an existing specification, just click the "Edit Specification" button on the specification. If your specification is locked, don't worry. Just send us an email at professional@pixelz.com, and we will be happy to help you out.

2 - If you have a big volume of Color Matching images, say a few hundred at a time, our Customer Success Managers can help you set triggers via file name or metadata, and any image uploaded that matches those name convention rules will run the color matching automation.

You only need to email us at professional@pixelz.com or contact your dedicated Customer Success Manager. 

Creating An Order With Color Matching

Here are the simple steps to follow in order to create an order with Color Matching:

1. Select a specification that has the Color Matching add-on included
2. Upload your images from your computer (you can choose to upload via web or FTP)
3. Select the images by clicking the first image + ⌘ / Ctrl + click on the last image
   (or use ⇧ / Shift key to add/remove images)
4. Right-click ---> Select "Color Matching" ---> "Add Color Matching"
5. Select a reference image ---> click "Select Color Reference"

If you don't want the reference image to be processed and included in the outputs, select the image and check the "Use as reference only" box. 

* Tips: Keyboard Shortcuts

You can see keyboard shortcuts by clicking this icon on the top right of your screen:

And there you have it! Your color-matching order is good to go. Easy, right?