Alternative color picker

[Bighousedaddy Profile Private messageWebsite]

Hello All;

I noticed on the wish list to PSP that a different color picker was asked for. As an alternative, I insert a color swatch into the last frame of my show... and then when I need it, I click on it so it's in the preview pane. From the preview pane I have an enlarged view and greater access to it.

[nannybear Profile Private messageWebsite]

What a great idea!!!!!! thanks for sharing, cheers Jan

[BarbaraC Profile Private messageWebsite]

That IS a great idea...except for one thing: have you noticed that the color picker never quite picks up the precise HEX values? For instance, if I have a color in one slide with the values of 129 151 168, and if I try to pick up that color for the next slide, the new color's HEX values might be 127 150 170. (I plucked those numbers out of nowhere and have no idea what color they'd produce.) So, using your method, as long as every matching color is chosen using your swatch slide, it should be fine. I find this color-picker behavior to be totally weird.

Barbara

[Bighousedaddy Profile Private messageWebsite]

Barbara;
I also have a color swatch with hexdecimal codes along with the color that I use in some instances.
The example I had in the .jpg is just one color swatch I use in a pinch.

[BarbaraC Profile Private messageWebsite]

I'm going to try doing this. I was sure there had to be an easier way other than typing in the same codes again and again. Just as long as I pick the color from the "color-picking" slide the first time out, everything should match, right?

Barbara

[Bighousedaddy Profile Private messageWebsite]

That's the way I've been doing it.... Work every time.
It frustrated me to no end that as with other software programs you can pick a specific color but not in PSP....

[BarbaraC Profile Private messageWebsite]

It frustrated me to no end that as with other software programs you can pick a specific color but not in PSP....

Photoshop is always right on the money for me, but if we think about it, that's what Photoshop is all about. ProShow is all about what we do with the things we've already developed in Photoshop. That said, I still wish Producer was a little more accurate with color, particularly since we often have to very carefully match colors for blending or continuity.

Barbara

[Bighousedaddy Profile Private messageWebsite]

Here is the coloor swatch with hexidecimal codes.
If you can't see what you want in the preview window....
go to motions and move the swatch around until you see what you want.
Then proceed as before.

[Bighousedaddy Profile Private messageWebsite]

I should also say that the color swatch you are seeing is a jpg
and it has a lot of trash in the photo so if anyone wants a bmp copy of it let me know.

[BarbaraC Profile Private messageWebsite]

I think I'm going to make my own version of what you have here. I tend toward muted tones for nearly everything, and I can quickly make up a chart in Photoshop. Thank you so much for sharing this trick of yours.

Barbara

[Osgood Profile Private message]

Thanks for the great tip Bighousedaddy,

There is a great set of nine pages of colour swatches at http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Lindsay/swatch0.html

They are arranged in tones and have hex values. I have screen captured them and will combine them into two separate image files so that I can add them to a show in two separate slides for colour picking. There are so many that I think that each colour will be too small if they go into one page.

Ormond.

[nannybear Profile Private messageWebsite]

also swatches here....

http://www.december.com/html/spec/color.html

this is a neat site

http://willmaster.com/possibilities/arc ... 7001.shtml

and this one...

http://html-color-codes.com/