Color Picker mouseover preview

I am trying to implement a standard color picker control
using custom color label/value pairs. When I test the application
(very basic at this point) For some, but not all, colors I need to
mouseover the color twice in order for the preview swatch to show
that color. This doesn't seem right, but I can't figure out how to
fix it.
Any insight would be appreciated!

Thanks Greg! That was the solution. It does seem strange that
this is required. With some testing I found that it is only
required when any of the defined colors are outside the standard
256 web colors.
Thanks again.

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PS CS6: stroke color picker preview in real time not working

re: NEW color picker stroke color not updating in real time (previewing).
Is it me or has the stroke color preview been removed in CS6 or is there a setting that needs to be changed to enable it?
The problem: When I create a shape layer, press enter and then chose a stroke color from the color picker, I select a color but it doesnt update the stroke color until I press enter. I'm sure it used to change in real time as you clicked on the color picker panel before accepting it.
Any sugestions or ideas as to whats going on or am I going mad?
Further update: This is when creating a shape but using the new stroke feature in the properties bar at the top (the one which gives you the new fancy options like having a dashed, transparent or gradiented stroke) and not the traditional method of adding it as an effect. This still shows a real time update, but the new method doesnt.

Curt Y wrote:
zarrdave wrote:
You're then moving the colour picker dialogue box to one side so you can see he shape created, and you've then tried clicking on different colours and the border color has changed after each click (but before you press OK)?
If thats working so the color changes in real time for you, then unfortunatley I've got a problem with my version.
Using Win7 CS6 extended, and following your instructions it works for me.
Border changes withn I click on color pallet with color picker.
Odd, same version/ O.S. here, thanks for that though Curt Y. Are you sure you're not clicking on the preset colours and actually using the color picker dialogue box.
I've been in a bit of a rush here at the office and appologise for not being clearer and posting a screencap earlier.
To clarify, its the Cyan dialogue box not the orange box I'm talking about (nice choice of colours I know ). The top right icon in the organge box with the colours in is how you get to it.

Color picker changes no longer preview?

I often choose the color for a selected object by manipulating the color in the picker while viewing the object to see the actual result before clicking OK on the color once it's right.
I just upgraded to CC from CS5, and this no longer seems to work - I have to make my best guess on the color based on the color picker swatch, and then approve it to see the results and then re-open the picker to try another shade. This is completely blowing up my workflow - sliding the cursor around in the picker lets me fine tune very carefully, and it might take many iterations through the pick/approve/preview cycle to get exactly the color I want, instead of one quick smooth trip to the picker. It's literally an order of magnitude or more time to do it this way.
Worse, because it takes so long, I find myself accepting colors that are "close enough" rather than go through a lot more iterations to really fine-tune it like I can in seconds in CS5.
I confess I haven't really searched the UI/prefs to turn this on since there's no Preview option checkbox in the color picker, which is where I would expect to find it. If there is a way to restore the color picker preview functionality, I will be grateful to learn how to do so.
Is this crimping anyone else's style as much as it is mine? I like CC a lot, but this one is a major step backward for me.

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Gradient Color Picker

Dear Community,
i have a Problem with Illustrator CS6. I've attached an image below.
I have an object with gradient fill and i've selected the first color stop.
In previous Versions of AI i could the pick any color with color Picker while holding the shift-key.
In CS6 this changes the color only in the Gradient Panel but not the Object itself:
I have to admit that i'm glad not to be a creative cloud user so i'm able to switch between Ai cs 5.1 and 6
because both have some features missing in the other version.
My best,
Herr K. aus Berlin
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Re: Gradient Color Picker
created by Mike Gondek
This still works for me in CS6 mac, but more importantly try not to use Shift eyedropper. The topic has been discussed here many times. Shift eyedropper is not accurate and samples the screen values, not the actual color.
Try using global swatches more often. Try this instead
select a gradient stop
Alt click on a swatch
If the swatch is set to global, you can easily change/adjust/merge colors later with one command on a global document level.
Thanks for the advice. I never had problems with shift-click picker i sample colors from other objects and even if they have Spot colors assigned it works, at least in CS5. I've tried in CS6 it's just not working. I've been told that there has been many discussions and i've read some. I'll stick to CS5. I'm very disapointed with adobe. This is a known bug it has been reworked on Mac Versions but not on PC.

Can't type Pantone values in the Color Picker with Ai CS6

Hi Illustrators,
I'm running Design and Web Premium CS6 on a Windows 7 machine. I was recently using Ai's Recolor Artwork dialogue for a CMYK document. I wanted to convert my 4 color artwork to Pantone solid coated. I decided to chose some different Pantones. In older versions of Illustrator I could easily open the Color Picker, click on a Pantone value and then just type in a new value to scroll to it. This is no longer the case with Ai CS6.
Does anyone know of a work around?

Thanks for getting back. It works on Photoshop CS6 (64bt) but not so with Ai
As long as I'm griping on lost features. Here's another great one that's gone with the CS6 wind...
In the Swatch Options, you used to be able to scroll through the Color Modes by holding Shift and clicking on the square color preview icon. You used to also be able to get the compliment on the fly by holding Control (Windows) / Command (Mac) and clicking on the same icon. Neither feature works anymore.

CS5 Quick-Access Color Picker....anyone found out how to actually use it properly?

Hey there,
I'm a digital artist and use Photoshop for the majority of my work. One feature that PS CS5 brought on that i was initially really looking foward to was the new way to select the color i wanted in real time, rather than having to go and click on the color and then select it... minor difference i know, but it really helps speed things up not having to do that and adobe have finally implimented this due to that reason... aprantly...
However, first off, i've noticed there seems to be absolutly nothing in Photoshop that tells you the shortcut command to show this new feature, which made me have to look online for it, and then the command is rather odd itself and the panel it brings up seems pretty unusable for me. The command is Shift+Alt+Right Click. This for me is quite difficult to actually do on an intuos 4 graphics tablet althogh thats more wacoms fault with odd feeling buttons, but then, Photoshop seems to offer no way to change this shortcut command to help me out there. Also with the panel itself, both the wheel and slider, i have 2 problems:
1. I know alot of people don't work this way but there seems to be no reason it can't be changed in the preferences when you choose the wheel or slider, but i work in the "b" of LAB color, so the right bar controls the tempreture of the color and the left box of has all the colors in it...you can't set up the quick entry slider like this.
2. It takes a while to actually get the quick entry color picker to get the color you want. The only reason this is, is because the way it acts is like you are always holding down a button so its constantly selecting the colors as you go over the menu. The problem here is, say i want a dark red.... i set the main strip to red, then in the saturation part try to get the color i want by stil holding these buttons and dragging out to that part of the menu. this will work. However, more likely than not i want to change the color just a *bit* more (say, to make it look like a colder red*, well then you loose the color you just found found because as soon as you move the cursor it selects all the colors back upto the hue strip...
Now, logically i'm guessing this menu is working by figuring out when the user clicks and lets go as to when it shoud come up and dissapear. Hense requires the right click in the shortcut, and also why it is constantly selecting a color. This i imagine is also probably why it doesn't seem to be changable because it has to be like that perhaps? But i seriously would urge adobe to improve this vastly in how it works ad user control for cs6 at least. Its very uncomfortable to use and turns out being faster to do it the old way for the most part...
So in the end, i'm just checking here, that there is in fact no way to change its keyboard shortcut, what color selection method to choose from, and to see if anyone else if experiencing similar problems with trying to use it.
Thank you

Some partial answers to some of my questions:
They were conveniently all in one menu, and it's very easy to tell someone, "Go to the menu bar and choose Advanced > Print Production > Output Preview."
But in Acrobat X, by default these choices aren't visible. It appears necessary to click Tools, which dramatically reduces the document width available), Print Production, and then choose from the Panel.
Since this user interface isn't standard, it's harder to describe to new users, and keeping Tools open wastes a lot of screen space.
It doesn't address the real estate issue, but at least one can describe to users they should View > Tools > Print Production and then deal with the subsequent tools pane that appears and therein click Output Preview.
Another concern is the new interface seems to have destroyed the discoverability of keyboard shortcuts. For instance, in Acrobat 9, Document > Delete Pages was clearly bound to Command-Shift-D.But in Acrobat 10, how are you supposed to find the keybinding? It is not even in the tooltip
In fact, it doesn't seem to be in the help under Keyboard shortcuts, or anywhere else in the help that I could find!
OK
in the "Page Thumbnails" "Navigation Pane" (formerly"Pages"; still F4) the right-click context menu has these shortcuts. As does what I guess is the "options" menu (analagous to a "flyout" menu but its in the upper-left of the pane rather than the upper-right). This isn't all that great since every icon leading to a functino should show the same keyboard binding, but it's nice to know it is somewhere...
More later.

Colors appearing different/darker compared to the color picker

Everytime I select a color in Illustrator it has the "Out of gamut" warning and the color I want appears darker and different then how It looks in the preview of color picker. Does anyone know how I can fix this? It is making the colors of my design really ugly. This problem also seems to be happening when I select a color in Indesign, but I'm not sure if this is caused by the same thing.
Thanks in advance!

The color picker works in RGB and most probably your document is set up in CMYK. When working for print this is perfectly OK and the printed results will match the duller look more than the vivid color picker. If you're designing for screen set up your dcoument as RGB.
Read the manual on colors as well.

Color picker show only gamut colors

hello all,
in photshop, you can go to View -> Show Gamut Warning and then in the color picker the colors out of gamut will be greyed out.
is there any similar setting in illustrator too?
thanks for answers.

Illustrator is a little different the color picker show the out of gamit warning however if I am corret since illustrator a little different and you really canot select an out of gamit color since it will converted to the cmyk environment for instance or the rgb environment you are creating your document, which is probably the reason that some colors coming from Photoshop do nt always match 100%.
For instance placing a rgb photo in Illustrator converts it to rgb slecting a color out of gamit will also give a cmyk value to it in the picker it is the cmyk value that will be used and there for will not be out of gamit turning on overprint preview will show what the color really looks like if you have a properly calibrated monitor.
The color you are seecing might be out of gamit but what you have in Illustrator will print properly no matter how close it appears on the screen.
Let me Illuustrate this
The color picker, notice the cmyk values and the out of gamit warning
The color panel shows it as cmyk values and as long as it is translated as percentages of cmyk inks then it is not out of gamit.
So the issue is mute in Illustrator

Trouble with Color Picker

I'm have a strange issue with a color I choose in color picker not matching the color the object is actually getting filled with.
If, while in color picker, the cursor is in a CMYK field when I select a color, it will show up in the rectangle as a slightly different color after I click OK. If I then open color picker again on that object, the preview color will match the color in the rectangle but the RGB values will be different from the values of the original color I wanted (CYMK stays the same).
If the cursor is in an RGB field, the color will show up a different color as well, but when I click fill on that object the color in the preview shows up as the color I wanted (and doesn't match the current fill color) and the RGB and CMYK values are the same as the ones I wanted.
Here's a screenshot of the difference in the two colors - the one I want in the preview swatch (sorry it's kind of hard to see), the one color picker fills is the color rectangle. And this has been happening for everything I try to fill, the color is generally not as bright as I want.

That's the intended behavior (clicking on one of the white squares sets your current color to that color).
To add a color to the array of colors, drag its icon from the top down onto one of the array of squares. (I'm pretty sure it's always been like this).;-)
Bonus tip: when the RGB or similar sliders are showing, hold down the Option key and click to the left or right of the slider button to increase or decrease the color in increments of one.
Hope this helps....

Any way to add color signature in Preview?

Please this is important. I need to add a color signature in Preview. The signature creating adds only black and white. I need it to be in blue.
Thanks

I discovered how to do this. Having inserted your signature, select it and change the color using the color picker (just to the right of the signature tool).
Good luck!

Illustrator CC - Color Picker for BLACK always shows 60C:90M:0Y:0K

In Illustrator CC, the color picker in the tool bar when showing 100% Black Text always comes up as 60% Cyan, 90% Magenta and nothing else. The little box on the tool bar will be black. The text will be black. But if I double click on the little box and get the Color Picker Window to appear, it has 60% Cyan and 90% Magenta filled in. If I change it to 100% Black and nothing else, hit enter, it will show as black but if I open the picker again, it will still be 60C 90M.
It only does this with 100% Black. If I have any other color it shows accurately as it should.
When Color separated the file is comes out right with the 100% as I want it. So really, its not a problem thats ruining the file its more of a preview thing and I am just curious as to why its doing it.
Illustrator CC 18.0.0 2014 Release.
Mac OSX 10.9.5 Mavericks.
In CMYK Mode. Blacks set to display accurately.

OBB,
I wonder whether it is a (hitherto unnoticed) bug, in which case a ug report would be called for,
https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform
or a corruption of preferences or something similar, in which case the list (maybe especially 4) or 6)) would be called for.
The following is a general list of things you may try when the issue is not in a specific file, and when it is not caused by issues with opening a file from external media, see below. You may have tried/done some of them already; 1) and 2) are the easy ones for temporary strangenesses, and 3) and 4) are specifically aimed at possibly corrupt preferences); 5) is a list in itself, and 6) is the last resort.
If possible/applicable, you should save current artwork first, of course.
1) Close down Illy and open again;
2) Restart the computer (you may do that up to at least 5 times);
3) Close down Illy and press Ctrl+Alt+Shift/Cmd+Option+Shift during startup (easy but irreversible);
4) Move the folder (follow the link with that name) with Illy closed (more tedious but also more thorough and reversible);
5) Look through and try out the relevant among the Other options (follow the link with that name, Item 7) is a list of usual suspects among other applications that may disturb and confuse Illy, Item 15) applies to CC, CS6, and maybe CS5);
Even more seriously, you may:
6) Uninstall, run the Cleaner Tool (if you have CS3/CS4/CS5/CS6/CC), and reinstall.
http://www.adobe.com/support/contact/cscleanertool.html
External media: It is always recommended here to open/save from/to own hard disk, and to copy from/to networks and removable media. You may be lucky (for a while), but the chances of file corruption and other unpleasantnesses are immensely greater when you use anything but the harddisk, and it is better to be safe than sorry.
In addition to the (far greater) risk of file corruption, some issues are mentioned here:
http://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/kb/illustrator-support-networks-removable-media.html

Mac v6.1 Bg color picker not working?

I am new to this application and working through the
tutorial, and my version is outdated, yea I know, but maybe there
is something simple I am missing here...
When I select a table cell and click on the Bg icon to change
the background color, it brings up the color pallete, I get the
eyedropper tool, and if I mouseover colors on the screen it shows
the color code in the window at the top of the color pallete, but I
am unable to click anywhere on the screen and have it actually grab
that color....I just get an error chime. I can use the color
pallete OK, and can even type in the color code manually that I am
trying to pick up, but geez, that's a pain. Anyone aware if this is
a known problem or if there is a solution?

I've confirmed the color picker bug in 10.6.6. I filed a bug report.
Copy of my report:
Summary: The color picker dialog reports incorrect values on the RGB slider, using DigitalColor Meter as a reference. On the RGB sliders, the picker can fix itself if you use the spyglass on the test color patch.
However, the "web safe colors" Color Palette also has problems. The color names do not match the values reported by DigitalColor Meter.
This is reproducible on both my and my wife's mbp 5,5 13"
Steps to Reproduce:
a) for the RGB sliders:
1) Quit TextEdit if open
2) Open TextEdit
3) menu, choose: Format->Fonts->Show Colors
4) Using RGB sliders, pick Red=50, Blue=0, Green=0 (DO NOT TYPE, USE THE SLIDERS)
5) open DigitalColor Meter
6) chose RGB as Actual Value, 8-bit on Digital Color Meter.
7) Hover over test patch on color picker dialog of textedit.
b) for the "web safe colors" palette
1) Quit TextEdit if open
2) Open TextEdit
3) menu, choose: Format->Fonts->Show Colors
4) Using the Color Palettes, choose "web safe colors".
5) open DigitalColor Meter
6) chose RGB as Hex Value, 8-bit on DigitalColor Meter
7) Hover over the selection patches on the color picker dialog of textedit.
Expected Results:
for a) the rgb sliders, DigitalColor Meter will report 71,7,8 (instead of 50,0,0)
for b) looking at color "CCCCCC" DigitalColor Meter reports D4,D4,D4
Actual Results:
Regression:
I am using osx 10.6.6 as is my wife, problem appears on both computers. I first noticed this with the color picker invoked by OmniOutliner Pro 3.9.5, but reproduced with the color picker invoked by TextEdit.
I have color calibrated my screen with a huey pro, however switch back to the factory profile did not affect the "Expected Results:" shown above.

With color management, color picker current color does not match canvas color

What gives here with color picker in CS3?
RGB doc
using color management/profiles
View>>proof color using my Epson RGB printer profile
create box
double click fill box in palette box to view color picker
pick color from spectrum area
close color picker
want to change color of box
double click fill box to view color picker
NOW current color does not match color on canvas, subtle but vexing color shift. So how can I use current color to pick a new color on the canvas is always different.
here's an in illustration of the problem:
http://docs.google.com/Presentation?id=dfv8h494_18gwqbsjg5

Rob, here's screenshot of Acrobats Output Preview Object Inspector. You can download my PDF here - //www.fileswap.com/dl/Q1CzzOzEqt/
I'm not sure if CM was assigned to document when created or afterwards. In Color Settings preferences is stated Fogra 39 (if it matters - document was meanwhile saved and opened...). Are there other options to assign workspace to exsisting document?
Peter, this is not the case. Placed image has embeded same color profile as is working space of document in ID. I tried the same with sRGB image placed in same ID document and compared it to PS but color shift (greenish) is present - it looks exactly the same.
Guys, I can't tell you how happy I am to have you help me with this terrible and nerve-wracking problem.

CS5 Color Picker HUD

I have PS CS5 (version 12.0.4x32). The Color PIcker HUD doesn't seem to work (shift-alt-right click). The Enable OpenGL Drawing box is greyed out and there's a note that PS "Standard" not supported. What's going on? Do I have aversion of PS that doesn't support the Color HUD? How do I find out if I have PS "Standard" How can I fix this?

At your suggestion, I went to Help > System Info, and here's everything that I found. Note that OpenGL Drawing is now enabled (it was greyed out before but not anymore, I don't know why), but when I click "Advanced Settings" I find that Mode is set to "Basic" and it's greyed out (i.e. I can't change it). The HUD color picker still does not work. BTW, I'm very appreciative of the help and attention you're giving to this. Thanks.
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How can I create a Tree with Color Picker icons?

I'm a newbie to Flex. I want to create a tree which has color
picker icons.
As an analogy for the Mac users out there, I envision a
control like the Calendars section in iCal, where you can specify
the color for each individual node. These colors are then used in
other parts of the application.
The Flex 3 documentation specifies four methods for setting
node icons on a Tree control, none of which seems to suit my needs:
-The folderOpenIcon, folderClosedIcon, and defaultLeafIcon
properties
-Data provider node icon fields
-The setItemIcon() method
-The iconFunction property
In other words, I want to "setItemIcon" to an mx:ColorPicker,
if that makes any sense.
Is there a standard way of doing this? If not, how can I go
about implementing such a control? Thanks in advance!

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