Painting with the Color Picker dialog visible [?!]

[MatejaPetkovic]

i' ll be short, no.

cheers

[xissburg]

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[MatejaPetkovic]

But you can screenshot your monitor(with opened color box) and then crop that image just to see box. Then place it on your image as new layer.

Hope that helps

[xissburg]

360 layers then, one for each level of hue =).

[RayBender]

if you re using CS4 you can use a Flash Panel see this link http://blogs.adobe.com/jnack/2008/12/photoshop_gets_1.html

[Creeto]

another question would be why would anyone like to have the color picker open...

[xissburg]

I often need to pick colors, different colors to bring lots of variations in my paintings, then I need to keep opening the ColorPicker, picking a color, closing it, and so on....it would be a lot better if I could let it opened everytime, then I just pick the color and done...wont it be useful for you? I dont know why it wouldnt...and, if the color picker wasn't modal, it would not make a difference for the ones who like it as modal. =X

[leigh]

Any particular reason why the Colour palette doesn't suffice?

[Creeto]

yep, this setup is enough for me

http://img21.imageshack.us/img21/75/10557250ir0.jpg


but is you REALLY wanna make it work your way, maybe you should checkout AutoHotKey

http://www.autohotkey.com/

[xissburg]

that color window should be greater...I dont understand why they dont give us this simple flexibility, oh well....okay guys, thanks =)

[Creeto]

as i wrote already, try AutoHotKey
http://www.autohotkey.com/

here's a script which gives you instant access to color picker by pressing the windows key
http://bestelix.deviantart.com/art/Color-picker-hotkey-photoshop-99901402

and here's another solution i found just now
http://www.peousware.com/open-photoshop-color-picker-with-a-keyboard-shortcut/