Manage Material by Color: From Brand-color Search to Same-tone Filtering and Designer Delivery

Color workflows are useful when visual style, brand color, or palette consistency matters.

1. Check Dominant Colors First

Select an image and view dominant colors in the detail panel, or double-click it to inspect the histogram in image preview. This helps you understand whether color search is appropriate.

Open Info on the right to inspect the histogram and main-color strip. Choose a representative brand or project image as your reference.

2. Open Color Search

Use reverse image search and choose the global color strategy. Upload a reference image and let the app detect its main colors.

Click Image at the top, add the reference, choose Global · Color, review the detected colors, and start. Color search compares palette and proportions; it does not guarantee the same subject.

3. Control Which Colors Participate

Keep the colors that represent the desired style. Try excluding irrelevant detected colors and compare results. Fewer colors change the matching basis, not necessarily strictness. This control selects detected colors; it does not add an arbitrary new color.

4. Review Same-tone Results

Compare dominant color, proportion, and overall atmosphere first. Then check subject relevance.

Also inspect composition, dimensions, clarity, text space, and source before delivery.

5. Use Color Labels for Manual Marking

After finding useful same-tone material, apply color labels to preserve human judgment.

Select an image and open its rating/color-label editor. Labels are manual markers, not detected image colors: your team could use red for priority, green for approved, and blue for review, regardless of the image palette.

6. Filter Similar Material in the List

Use the file list filter toolbar to filter by color labels, rating, folder, or other conditions.

7. Collect and Export for Designers

Add candidates to a collection or export them directly. Export paths if designers need to find original files later.

In the Results tab, use the search's Actions menu to Convert to New Collection or Add to Existing Collection. History collection/export actions cover the whole result regardless of drawer selection. For a subset, use an explicitly selected-image action. History export offers images, names CSV, per-image path TXT, and XLSX; the collection-tree menu offers Images and Image Names CSV. Use the options actually provided by the chosen menu. Keep the collection for later additions and revisions.

Common Cases

• Results are led by the wrong color: check the reference and scope, then adjust detected-color selection and compare results.
• Similar palette but wrong subject: combine color search with folder scope or filters.
• Need brand-color consistency: use both color search and manual color labels.
• Global · Color is unavailable: confirm that the current database has color data, then add or repair the required parsing capability.

Worked Example

These screenshots follow one forest image: color search returns it and its identical backup first at 100%; the image is then marked with five stars and green. The independent rating and color-label filter buttons narrow the file list to that one marked image. A collection named 山野旅行 contains one image from the same results. This sample includes four landscape photos and identical backups; the scores are specific to this library.