Color Picker/Window

This is crazy- and i'm guessing inexperience is keeping me from solving this:
I tried to move my small color picker/window to my other screen (dual screen set-up) and seem to have LOST it somewhere between the two screens.
For the life of me, I can't seem to get it back.
Any help?
I know, I'm an idiot

Unlike Photoshop in Illustrator you have to double click the Fill or Stroke Colour icon in the main Tools panel or the Colour panel in order to open the Colour Picker dialog.
That could be the issue you are encountering.

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hi,
Could anyone tell me that why can't i open my "Color Picker" in illustrator CS5 ???
P.S Im Mac user.thank u @@
I can find my color picker in Photoshop CS5.(like pic)
But It doesnt show out in illustrator CS5...
I already check all set up still cant find it..>< why??????

Unlike Photoshop in Illustrator you have to double click the Fill or Stroke Colour icon in the main Tools panel or the Colour panel in order to open the Colour Picker dialog.
That could be the issue you are encountering.

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Hey everyone,
I am doing digital painting in Photoshop CS6, and would love it if I could keep my color picker open in a separate window. Does anyone know how to do this? I've seen an artist named Feng Zu do this in a painting tutorial video, but he doesn't explain how.
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You can also get to a HUD (Heads Up Display) version of the Color Picker by holding down the Control+Option+Command keys on a Mac (Alt+Shift+Right Click on a PC, I believe)
But I personally find the HUD color picker unintuitive and problematic.
If you find a way to keep a floating Color Picker window, post back. That could be convenient.

HUD Color Picker

the HUD color picker is pretty useful, but it's buried under a complicated shortcut (shift+alt+ctrl+right button) all held down at the same time. When all buttons are released, the color picker disappears.
Here's my question: when the picker is visible, the saturation and value automatically change as you simply hover the cursor anywhere within the 'square' portion of its window. (The color ring is on the outer edges, and I'll get to that). You don't need to click on the picker to choose a new saturation or value; you only need to hover ontop of the new saturation/value and then release the buttons when you're ontop of the saturation/value that you'd like to select. As you hover within the window, the saturation/value is automatically updating in real time depending on what location your cursor is ontop of within the square portion of the window. But the problem is that when the picker first becomes visible, the cursor is automatically placed directly in the center of its window. So when you hover the cursor to the outer edges where the color ring is (in order to shift the hue), it is also shifting the saturation/value as you pull the cursor from the center of the HUD window over to the ring on the outside. Hope this makes sense.
How do you use the HUD color picker to shift only the hue without affecting the saturation/value?

well, I've managed to re-map the entire process since starting this thread (using AutoHotKey). Here's what I do now:
hold down 'b' on the keyboard (hold it down, not press+release) and the standard photoshop color picker window appears. I can now choose my color, hue, and saturation (as normal). No worrying about values or saturations shifting; this is the default color picker window.
then, release 'b' and the color picker window disappears. This is essentially *identical* to the HUD color picker function, except that there are 2 improvements:
-you no longer need to press 4 keys to get it to appear (shift+ctrl+alt+right button) - you only need to hold down 'b' on the keyboard
-when you release 'b', the color picker window disappears, exactly the same way the the HUD color picker does.
The only drawback I would suppose, is that's it's a fraction slower - not *quite* as fast as the HUD color picker, but that would be nitpicking. Still works fast, and great.
But with the HUD color picker, I would still like to know if there's a way to keep the same sat/value while only shifting the hue... i find it hard to believe that Adobe implemented this HUD color wheel with such a major flaw... I'm thinking it's got to be something I'm doing wrong

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

Help please - color picker is gone in photoshop cs4

for some reason, when i saved files as gif, i could not reopen them. i would get some error message. so i read somewhere to shut down photoshop and restart it while holding down the ctrl + alt+ shift keys to reset it to all the defaults.
i did this but now when i click the foreground or background color squares at the bottom of the toolbar, i get some stupid color window with 48 Basic Color squares and a couple likes of blank squares for Custom Colors.
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that windows vs adobe color picker seems like a very well kept secret.
even if someone knew EXACTLY what to search for: "change color picker"
-- only the page you mentioned and one other
(http://www.photoshopgurus.com/forum/photoshop-troubleshooting/4946-color-picker-change.htm l)
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It's horrible! When i try to get back to PS it immidiately starts another tab, and another it takes less than 1 second...
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Thank you, felt like I was going crazy
From: Jacob Bugge
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To: steve sheets
Subject: fill color picker issue
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Hi!
My question is simple:
Can I access the eyedropper when I'm picking a color in the color picker panel?
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Hello All,
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Hope this helps someone...
Cheers!

Can I get the Apple Color Picker in CS5 Windows?

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I'm a lifetime Mac and long time PShop user transplanted into a Windows shop. Of all the things that I miss on my new workplace platform, the Apple Color Picker is the one that I encounter most often.
Is there a plug-in, an extension, is there some way, ANY WAY, that I could have the Apple CP to use on a Windows version of CS5?? It might seem like a trivial issue to Windows users but to a transplanted Mac user - it's a major one.
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color wheel picker Photoshop windows
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