Can you change mathematica's RGBcolor scheme from Arithmetic to Digital 8-bit per channel?

Question

When you define a new color using the RGBcolor function the system used is the arithmetic where color are defined by values between 0 and 1, I think.

Is there a way to use the Digital 8-bit per channel system instead? The one that ranges from 0 to 255.

Thank you.

Answer 1

Say you want to define a color with 8-bit RGB values {100, 125, 240}. You could use:

col = {100, 125, 240};
RGBColor[col/255]

Answer 2

A couple more ways:

RGBColor["#" <> IntegerString[{10, 125, 240}, 16, 2]]

First@DominantColors@Image[{{{10, 125, 240}}}, "Byte"]

Output:

(*  RGBColor[0.0392156862745098, 0.49019607843137253`, 0.9411764705882353]  *)

Answer 3

The Interpreter function does direct conversion of color specifications.

Interpreter["Color"]["RGB 64 128 255"]
(* RGBColor[64/255, 128/255, 1] *)

Note that use of "Color" requires connectivity to the Wolfram Cloud.