how to color mask in c

Question

how do you color mask a 32 bit unsigned integer for the red, green, and blue values

is it like this? (color_to_be_masked>>8)

Answer 1

This should get you the result you want:

short red = (color >> 16) & 0xFF;
short green = (color >> 8) & 0xFF;
short blue = (color) & 0xFF;