The Pin Edit Dialog is used to create and edit pins, and is generally invoked via one of the commands in the Pin Palette's right click menu.

Note: There are two other important ways to create and modify pins. These are the Sample Pane's Save Sample as Pin menu item, and direct editing of the pin files with a text editor.

Name is a short description of the pin for your own reference. It will show up in the banner of the Sample Pane of any sample that you create by dragging the pin onto the image

Color is a string describing the color. It must be in either Lab, RGB, wgCMYK, CMYK, or HSB space.You may type this string in manually, or select it using Photoshop's Color Picker by clicking on the button marked ..., to the right of the Lab button.

The Lab button converts the color string in the Color field to the Lab color space. This ensures that the color will remain constant when your Photoshop Color Settings be changed later.

Notes allows you to provide optional descriptive text for the pin. This information will be displayed via a tooltip window when you move the mouse cursor over the pin in the Pin Palette. To insert a line break, hold down the control key as you press the Enter Key.

Include statistics is enabled only when you have enabled the display of statistical values, such as standard deviation or delta E, in the view options. Check this box to include statistics in the Notes window.

• Normal - creates a pinned sample that will control the specified combination of hue, saturation, or brightness by adding points to the interior of the appropriate curves.
• Shadow - is similar to Normal, but will create a pinned sample that operates by modifying the dark endpoints of the specified curve.
• Neutral - creates a pinned sample that eliminates color.
• Highlight - is similar to Shadow, and operates on the bright endpoints of the appropriate curves.

Pin Mode controls the effect of Normal pin as follows:

• Hue - changes the color, but not the amount of white in the color, or the overall brightness of the color.
• Saturation - changes the proportional amount of white mixed with the color.
• Brightness - changes the overall brightness.

Note: Pins do not directly affect the image. When dragged onto an image, a pin specifies the creation of a pinned sample that operates on the color on which the pin was dropped. The pinned sample operates on a designated image color by emitting curve points.