Patent ID: 8773364

Claim:
A method for operating a lighting control console for controlling a lighting system comprising the following steps: a) providing a lighting control console comprising at least one digital processor and at least one digital memory for generating, managing and storing the adjusting commands, wherein the lighting control console includes at least one display device, and wherein a color palette for the selection of a color can be graphically represented at the display device for the user, said color palette being all selectable colors consecutively displayed as color gradients, and wherein the display device has a touch-sensitive sensor surface, which by touching the touch-sensitive sensor surface allows for the selection of digital color parameters of a color from the displayed color palette; b) selecting a digital color image, wherein the image content is formed by a plurality of pixels, and wherein the color of each pixel is specified by a combination of color parameters, wherein said digital color image does not form part of the color palette; c) displaying the selected color image at the display device; d) selecting several pixels of the color image not forming part of the color palette by touching the touch-sensitive sensor surface, wherein the several pixels of the color image including a two-dimensionally coherent pixel region are selected in the touch-sensitive sensor surface, wherein the color parameters of the several pixels are integrated and converted into the combination of color parameters which is provided for further processing; and e) further processing the combination of color parameters of the several pixels of the color image selected by touching the touch-sensitive sensor surface, wherein for the image output at the display device, all pixels which have color parameters that correspond to the combination of color parameters or color parameter regions provided for further processing are transparently masked.