{"id":15638,"date":"2008-12-06T09:55:38","date_gmt":"2008-12-06T09:55:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnackdev\/2008\/12\/photoshop-gets-a-new-color-picker-panel.html"},"modified":"2008-12-06T09:55:38","modified_gmt":"2008-12-06T09:55:38","slug":"photoshop_gets_a_new_color_picker_panel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2008\/12\/06\/photoshop_gets_a_new_color_picker_panel\/","title":{"rendered":"Photoshop gets a new color picker panel"},"content":{"rendered":"

When painting in Photoshop, I’ve always found the little color ramp area on the Color panel (screenshot<\/a>) pretty cramped.  At just 190×15 pixels, it occupies a princely<\/em> 0.16% of the screen real estate on a 17″ monitor (or 0.07% on 30-incher!), and yet you’re supposed to use it to choose among 16.7 million colors.  The main Photoshop color picker is of course much larger and more powerful, but using it requires trips into a modal dialog box.<\/p>\n

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Though we’ve yet to offer the color picker dialog in panel form, developer Anastasiy has created a SWF panel form of the picker (screenshot<\/a>) that you can download for free<\/a>.  Very cool! <\/p>\n

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I’ve written to Anastasiy to suggest a few tweaks, and I hope this is the first of many alternate color pickers for Photoshop. (We’re also talking to Viktor Goltvyanitsa about bringing his ColorPalette panel<\/a>–now part of Fireworks CS4<\/a>–to PSCS4.)  Lastly, we’ll work to make sure these components can be dropped into Configurator panels. <\/p>\n

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PS–A note on installation: Drop the contents of the ZIP file into your "Adobe Photoshop CS4\/Plug-Ins\/Panels" directory, then look under Window->Extensions.  All SWF files you drop into Panels or its subfolders appear under the Extensions submenu. <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When painting in Photoshop, I’ve always found the little color ramp area on the Color panel (screenshot) pretty cramped.  At just 190×15 pixels, it occupies a princely 0.16% of the screen real estate on a 17″ monitor (or 0.07% on 30-incher!), and yet you’re supposed to use it to choose among 16.7 million colors.  The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[26,32,50],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15638"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15638"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15638\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15638"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15638"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15638"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}