How to Use OBS Color Source, Gradient Source (Add Colors or Make Overlays) Tutorial
This is a beginners tutorial on using Color sources in Open Broadcaster Software (OBS) Studio. I will also go through installing the Gradient Source plugin and the OBS Shader plugin.
01:00 - Color Source Tutorial
03:30 - Gradient Source Download
04:10 - Gradient Source Tutorial
05:40 - OBS Shaderfilter Download
06:20 - Setting Up RGB Color Wheel
08:40 - Conclusion
More information on using OBS Studio can be found here https://obsproject.com/wiki/
OBS Studio can be downloaded at
https://obsproject.com/
Gradient source plugin by Exeldro https://obsproject.com/forum/resource...
OBS Shaderfilter by Surn https://obsproject.com/forum/resource...
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When you name your color source, the first thing you will see is a window prompring you to pick a color, width and height.
A default color will be selected and that colors hex code will be shown in a small box below the preview image. When you click on select color, you’ll be brought to a standard color selection screen. Here you can do a few things. You can pick any color in the basic color swatch on the left or the rainbow pad on the right. RGB color values can be manually adjusted in the boxes below as well as hue, saturation and white value. If you know a specific hex code you can enter that in the HTML box, If you have a logo or image where you want to match a color from, you can click here to pick a color from anywhere on your screen. Lastly, you can save your favorite colors in the custom color window.
Now, we’re going to look at installing a plugin. If you’ve been following my tutorials in order so far, I’ve mentioned plug-ins but now we are going to look at using not one, but two plugins to create a unique effect. First, lets head over to the OBS website and head to the forum section. Click the resources link and it will bring you to where you will find all sorts of goodies and add-ons to look through. We can search for specific plug-ins also. Go to the search button and look up Gradient. I’ll include the link in the description as well. Find the link to Gradient Source. Click download in the upper right corner of the page. Select the package for your OS. If you use Windows you can select the installer. Otherwise, follow the included instructions on how to install any particular plug-in. Whichever method you go with, install the plug-in but leave this open for now as we will come back here soon.
Now when you open OBS back up, you have the option to add a gradient color source. Here, you can pick two colors and adjust their transparency. The sRGB button was added in a recent version update to “fix midpoint calculation” or, essential improve color accuracy. Below that, you can set the rotation and midpoint, which let you customize the directions and amount of the colors in your gradient.
So, this is cool because now if you want to use brand colors more effectively or just ad a good splash of color to your stream you can, and it doesn’t require the use of Photoshop or any image editing software.
But its still boring because it’s not doing anything.
So, back to your browser, I told you to keep it open. Here’s why. We are going to search for another plugin called OBS Shaderfilter. Select the normal Shaderfilter for this example.
Reload OBS, and when we get back in, we can select our gradient source. Right click and select filters. Now, we can add a filter called a user defined shader.
Check the box that says to load from file. In the example, I used the RGB color wheel. Be aware that some of these shaders are not the most stable and could crash your OBS. I find they work differently from system to system. Play around with different settings and use the refresh shader button when you want to apply changes.