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Denart
10-25-2006, 03:20 PM
This is the palette I'm talking about:
http://www.aucegypt.edu/acs/documents/photoshop/Photoshop5_files/image080.jpg

Now, is there a keyboard shortcut that you can create to bring that palette up?
(I never use the color swatches. I feel its kind of limiting...)

I prefer the Corel Painter's palette more because its smaller and more efficient. Plus its always open for you to pick colors from.

I'm thinking widly right now...but is there a program out there that allows you to incorporate the Painter palette into Photoshop? That would be something! ;)


I have CS2 btw...
:) Thanks
rikrog
10-25-2006, 06:31 PM
don't know about a keyboard short-cut... I just double click on the colour preview at the bottom of the tool pallet.
Erik Heyninck
10-25-2006, 07:39 PM
You can keep the Color palette open all the time. It's smaller, and you can easily set it to either RGB, HSB,...sliders, and RGB, CMYK,...spectrum. It automatically changes the foreground and background colours. When painting, the moment you hover with your brush over it, it changes into an eyedropper and you can pick the colour you fancy. (Window>Color)
Denart
10-25-2006, 11:10 PM
You can keep the Color palette open all the time. It's smaller, and you can easily set it to either RGB, HSB,...sliders, and RGB, CMYK,...spectrum. It automatically changes the foreground and background colours. When painting, the moment you hover with your brush over it, it changes into an eyedropper and you can pick the colour you fancy. (Window>Color)

that's true...but the palette annoys me with its tiny size and the sliders are kinda extraneous
Erik Heyninck
10-26-2006, 07:07 AM
If the Color picker is too large and Color is too small, then Painter may be the app of your choice!
Datameister
10-27-2006, 07:03 AM
Nah, don't switch to Painter just because of the color picker. (There are other valid reasons to use the program, but I'm saying you shouldn't just decide based on that.)

Photoshop doesn't officially allow you to open the color picker with a keyboard shortcut. But thanks to Rogfa, I now know that you can use a third-party program like AutoHotkey to create a hotkey that clicks a given point on the monitor. Go to this tutorial (http://wiki.cgsociety.org/index.php/Suggested_Wacom_Tablet_Setup) for instructions.
Erik Heyninck
10-27-2006, 10:52 AM
Indeed, but sometimes it's never good. Sorry for being a bit sarcastic.

here's my method: create a new document, not too large and not too small, and, in selected parts, fill it with the gradients of colours you want to use in your work. Then open yourreal doc to be painted on and pick your colours from the first one, using the I and B shortcuts to toggle between eyedropper and brush.
Keep those gradients i a special folder as they usually come in handy later.
Denart
10-27-2006, 07:35 PM
Datameister - your link didnt work but I googled it and found the CA.org thread. the thread that you started with the same question (great minds think alike. haha) ;)
Looks good


Erik Heyninck - thats another method and seems legit
Datameister
10-27-2006, 11:17 PM
Whoops, sorry about that. The link should work now. This forum is very strange whenever I try to link to CGWiki articles...
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