it’d be like a simple A/B switch and user could with a single click switch between last two color models without going and searching into panel’s options.ĥ. Or- maybe you could add a small button (like the one which appears for out of gamut color) that could switch between two last modes? E.g. I’d like one to be RGB and another with HSB – these are two modes I find constantly switching between. I’d be interested to try if it’d improve my workflow if I could open multiple color panels. Actions particularly would be very useful IMHO.Ĥ. Current independent libraries for such items are fine, but sometimes it’d really help when a file would also bring you specific actions, swatches, etc important just for that document. I’ve filled feature request form with similar concept just on ‘actions’, but- I’d really like if Photoshop could let me select/add/organize colors, swatches, styles, etc to be EMBEDDED into. Using a Wacom improves lots of things but still- I’d be happy with less slides to color panel to drag some triangle few pixels to any side.ģ. Let me quickly (add even a keyboard shortcut!) increase/decrease saturation or brightness or even tint. Please make color bars bigger than in current color panel. Why don’t make it similar: alt+right click would bring color chooser immediately behind the mouse cursor.
If you’re thinking on a more serious overhaul of color picking features – instead of bigger/more extended panels, i’d better prefer more clean solutions – such as for instance: changing the brush when right click brings options and/or changing the size with keyboard shortcuts is excellent compared to actions of picking a color. I hate makings screenshot and pasting into Photoshop to be able to sample a color and I somehow find it’s necessary quite often in my workflow.Ģ. Please- eyedropper working for complete screen and any window/program is a must (former macromedia apps has this working). When I think what eats most of my time and clicks whens interacting with current color pickers in Photoshop, i’d suggest (first three are really serious):ġ. I really like such topics on this blog directly related to Photoshop features and future improvements – thanks for bringing such threads!Īs for color picker, I quite like current color panel, actually- it’s simple and does it’s job (making non modal main Photoshop color picker might be good for some uses, but please- don’t make it as replacement for current color panel). Or, how about scrapping it as a panel and merging its sliders with swatches? I often find myself selecting swatches, then playing with them in color picker–it would be really handy to have my sliders right there… That would be neat–it would visualize the whole mixing colors thing a lot better. What about something that lets us see a venn-diagram of the colors in our selected mode… Select a circle, drag an intensity slider, create a new color or colors in the middle. More powerful? Well, if y’all don’t go with integrating the color picker, I think the palette needs to be re-purposed. And make it only select shiny brass colors. What would make it cooler? Trip it out with steampunk accents. Double-clicking a swatch would bring it out of the sidebar, just like the other palettes. What would make it more useful? Well, for picking colors, there’s the aptly named the color picker, so the palette should either vanish into the abyss (since it picks color less effectively/flexibly than another tool) OR the color palette could actually become the color picker. I can count on one hand the number of times I’ve used the actual palette because, as you’ve intimated, it’s less than blissfully useful. It’s probably revealing that when I think “color palette,” or more generally “choose a color,” I think of the color picker. For a minute there, I was thinking “Color ramp? What’s he.Ooooh.”