RGB colour picker - Captivate 8

Has anyone else had issues with the colour picker not producing the correct colour when you've typed the RGB values in?

It is a known bug, has been reported several times. Hope it will be fixed
soon.
On Sep 29, 2014 11:01 PM, "emerge learning" <[email protected]>

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Colour picker

on windows $.colorPicker() is not the same as the colour picker that appears for choosing colours when clicking either the fill or stroke colour (ie, looks like it belongs on windows 95).
is there no way to call the actual colour picker, or am i limited to choosing colours with RGB, which, when it's for print, is a bit of an issue. (Converting isn't an issue, but when I have an exact CMYK colour I need to use...)
Or... has someone already made a CYMK and RGB colour picker? It seems like a fairly trivial thing to do - few sliders et voila! (he said naïvely!)

Take a look at Marc Autret's implementation: http://www.indiscripts.com/post/2009/06/web-color-picker
It might give you ideas on how to adjust it for CMYK.

How do I fix colour picker to work across different colour-managed monitors?

Hey everyone!
I'm assuming this problem I'm having stems from having colour-calibrated monitors, but let me know if I'm wrong!
To preface, this is the setup I have:
Windows 7
3 monitors as follows, all have individual colour profiles calibrated using the Spyder 3
Cintiq 12WX
Dell U2410
Dell 2409WFP
Photoshop CS6 - Proofed with Monitor RGB, and tested with colour-managed and non-colour-managed documents
I usually do most of my work on the Cintiq 12WX, but pull the photoshop window to my main monitor to do large previews and some corrections. I noticed that the colour picker wouldn't pick colours consistently depending on the monitor the Photoshop window is on.
Here are some video examples:
This is how the colour picker works on my Dell U2410: http://screencast.com/t/lVevxk5Ihk
This is how it works on my Cintiq 12WX: http://screencast.com/t/tdREx4Xyhw9
Main Question
I know the Cintiq's video capture makes the picture look more saturated than the Dell's, but it actually looks fine physically, which is okay. But notice how the Cintiq's colour picker doesn't pick a matching colour. It was actually happening the opposite way for a while (Dell was off, Cintiq was fine), but it magically swapped while I was trying to figure out what was going on. Anyone know what's going on, and how I might fix it?
Thanks for *any* help!
Semi-related Question regarding Colour Management
Colour management has always been the elephant-in-the-room for me when I first tried to calibrate my monitors with a Spyder colourimeter years ago. My monitors looked great, but Photoshop's colours became unpredictable and I decided to abandon the idea of calibrating my monitors for years until recently. I decided to give it another chance and follow some tutorials and articles in an attempt to keep my colours consistent across Photoshop and web browsers, at least. I've been proofing against monitor colour and exporting for web without an attached profile to keep pictures looking good on web browsers. However, pictures exported as such will look horrible when uploaded to Facebook. Uploading pictures with an attached colour profile makes it look good on Facebook. This has forced me to export 2 versions of a picture, one with an attached colour profile and one without, each time I want to share it across different platform. Is there no way to fix this issue?
Pictures viewed in Windows Photo Viewer are also off-colour, but I think that's because it's not colour managed... but that's a lesser concern.

I think I've figured out the colour management stuff in the secondary question, but the weird eyedropper issue is still happening. Could just be a quirk from working on things across multiple monitors, but I'm hoping someone might know if this is a bug/artifact.
Going to lay out what I inferred from my experiments regarding colour management in case other noobs like me run into the same frustrations as I did. Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong - the following are all based on observation.
General Explanation
A major source of my problems stem from my erroneous assumption that all browsers will use sRGB when rendering images. Apparently, most popular browsers today are colour-managed, and will use an image's embedded colour profile if it exists, and the monitor's colour profile if it doesn't. This was all well and good before I calibrated my monitors, because the profile attached to them by default were either sRGB or a monitor default that's close to it. While you can never guarantee consistency on other people's monitors, you can catch most cases by embedding a colour profile - even if it is sRGB. This forces colour-managed browsers to use sRGB to render your image, while non-colour-managed browsers will simply default to sRGB. sRGB seems to be the profile used by Windows Photo Viewer too, so images saved in other wider gamut colour spaces will look relatively drab when viewed in WPV versus a colour-managed browser.
Another key to figuring all this out was understanding how Profile Assignment and Conversion work, and the somewhat-related soft-proofing feature. Under Edit, you are given the option to either assign a colour profile to the image, or convert the image to another colour profile. Converting an image to a colour profile will replace the colour profile and perform colour compensations so that the image will look as physically close to the original as possible. Assigning a profile only replaces the colour profile but performs no compensations. The latter is simulated when soft-proofing (View > Proof Colors or ctrl/cmd-Y). I had followed bad advice and made the mistake of setting up my proofing to Monitor Color because this made images edited in Photoshop look identical when the same image is viewed in the browser, which was rendering my images with the Monitor's colour profile, which in turn stemmed from yet another bad advice I got against embedding profiles . This should formally answer Lundberg's bewilderment over my mention of soft-proofing against Monitor Colour.
Conclusion and Typical Workflow (aka TL;DR)
To begin, these are the settings I use:
Color Settings: I leave it default at North American General Purpose 2, but probably switch from sRGB to AdobeRGB or ProPhoto RGB so I can play in a wider gamut.
Proof Setup: I don't really care about this anymore because I do not soft-proof (ctrl/cmd-Y) in this new workflow.
Let's assume that I have a bunch of photographs I want to post online. RAWs usually come down in the AdobeRGB colour space - a nice, wide gamut that I'll keep while editing. Once I've made my edits, I save the source PSD to prep for export for web.
To export to web, I first Convert to the sRGB profile by going to Edit > Convert to Profile. I select sRGB as the destination space, and change the Intent to either Perceptual or Relative Colorimetric, depending on what looks best to me. This will convert the image to the sRGB colour space while trying to keep the colours as close to the original as possible, although some shift may occur to compensate for the narrower gamut. Next, go to Save for Web. The settings you'll use:
Embed Color Profile CHECKED
Convert to sRGB UNCHECKED (really doesn't matter since you're already in the sRGB colour space)
and Preview set to Internet Standard RGB (this is of no consequence - but it will give a preview of what the image will look like in the sRGB space)
That's it! While there might be a slight shift in colour when you converted from AdobeRGB to sRGB, everything from then on should stay consistent from Photoshop to the browser
Edit: Of course, if you'd like people to view your photos in glorious wide gamut in their colour-managed browsers, you can skip the conversion to sRGB and keep them in AdobeRGB. When Saving for Web, simply remember to Embed the Color Profile, DO NOT convert to sRGB, and set Preview to "Use Document Profile" to see what the image would look like when drawn with the embedded color profile

Colour picker issue

Hi there,
Having an issue I've never experienced with Photoshop CS4 (running on Windows 7). I can't seem to find a solution online, so hopefully someone here will have some suggestions.
Basically, when I pull up my colour picker, I no longer have a smooth gradient of colour; instead I'm getting bands radiating from the upper left corner. 'Only Web Colours' is not checked off, but my colour picker looks sort of like it would if it had been checked off (only the banding is less definite - it's maybe halfway between the way it normally looks and the way it usually looks with Web Colours checked off). This is also causing my brushes to behave strangely; the colours are interacting in funny ways, producing really desaturated mixes sometimes, and other times almost appearing to have some kind of burn/multiply effect going on. All layers and brushes are set to normal, and image mode is RGB.
Anyway, if anyone has any suggestions, I'd love to hear them. The only thing that I've done recently that I can think of that might have caused this is a Windows update on a bunch of my drivers yesterday afternoon, which included updates for my graphics card and Wacom tablet.
Rob

Hi Noel,
Actually, as far as I'm aware, the problem just started yesterday, immediately after I ran Windows Update (which included updates for my graphics card and my Wacom tablet). I can't say that for sure, because the last few projects I've worked on were all black and white or greyscale, and I may not have noticed the colour banding (though I suspect I would have). Otherwise, though, I've used this set-up for a couple of years now without issue.
As far as the monitor profile, I think I just changed that yesterday to see if that would affect things, but have changed it back now to what it was (SRGB 1EC61966-2.1). The banding is, unfortunately, still present. Anyway, here's a screengrab. I use a plug-in so that I don't have constantly be going in and out of the colour-picker when I want to choose colours, and you can see (hopefully) that the banding is present in both the plug-in and Photoshop's default colour picker window.
Interestingly, and I assume this is related, the brushes are working in funny ways too. For instance, if I take a lighter colour (for instance #b3988d) at 24% opacity and scribble across the white page there is literally no effect. If I stroke again, I see some colour where the second stroke overlaps the first, but not where it hits the blank page.
Thanks again,
Rob

Which one is right? The colour picker or the info panel?

Try this one out at home kids:
Set your colour picker to Greyscale and dial 25% K into your foreground colour swatch.
Now, in a new, RGB document, fill that document with your foreground colour.
Now open the Info palette, set one of your readouts to "Greyscale" and enjoy seeing it read 31% K.
Uh.
WTF?
My RGB readout reads 192 across all channels, which is correct: 192 / 256 = 75% (additive) = 25% (subtractive)
This probably has something to do with colour management, but could someone A) explain to me what is happening, and B) tell me how to set it so I can get mathematically predictable results?

D Fosse wrote:
I'm not trying to argue...well, I am - but if you could explain precisely what you're after I'm sure it's doable.
Dag, did you go through the exact sequence he put up in the first post?
The issue is that we seem to be able to set the absolute numbers for RGB in the COLOR panel (made visible through the Window - Color) menu via choosing Grayscale and a %K value - in this case 25% sets color (192, 192, 192). It sets these values no matter what profile the document is using.
When that color is used on any old document, the profile is involved with reading back the number in the %K portion of the info panel.
No profile is involved with setting the number (because this operation doesn't involve a document), a profile IS involved with reading the number from a document. That difference is at the root of the issue Tom is sensing, I think.
My comment about Photoshop being developed on a Mac... Note that with a profile carrying gamma 1.8, Photoshop DOES make the numbers match., probably owing to a hard-coded gamma correction in the logic of the info panel. It might be more reasonable for it to just use the gamma derived from the profile, or just do a conversion to linear space first, but then that would change the way Photoshop works, and Adobe appears to have a policy of "keep it very consistent with past releases, so everything still works".
-Noel

No pure white in colour picker

After replaced and upgraded the old monitor. I fail to see the pure white anymore in Photoshop. Even though RGB are all set as 255, the whitest I can see is a light beige. What do I need to do please?
I could see the rulers and the sub-menu boxes etc. in white colour, the white only does not shows in the colour picker.
Appreciate any help please.
Nina

That's a typical sign of a broken monitor profile. Calibrate/recalibrate, whichever applies.
If you don't have a monitor calibration package, go into control panel > color management and replace the monitor profile with plain old sRGB (or Adobe RGB if the monitor is wide gamut).
Did you install the manufacturer's profile from the disc? Surprisingly often they are defective and useless.

Is there a way to make the colour picker in the toolbar bigger?

Hi,
Is there a way to make the colour picker in the toolbar bigger?
I've been using Illustrator for some time now and find this part of the software to be annoying as I frequently mis-click this tiny area and the switching between foreground and background colour is easily mismanaged and you end up changing the colour of the one you didn't intend and then have to make two clicks to remedy that.
Do any other users find this to be a badly designed part of the software?
Also, while I'm here I suggest that when in the colour creation dialogue the 'preview' tick can somehow be switched to on as default.
I can understand that there are situations where it might be better not to see your colour change in the document in real time, but to have to click this (again very small) tick box again and again feels like bad design.
^ both the above are frequent tasks for many users
Interested to hear if there's any work arounds to fix this.

Thanks for the tip,
I do use x and shift x and also / to make a no stroke or no fill. But / is a long way across the keyboard. I guess I could reassign that function to a key that's nearer x.
I think the real annoying bit is not only the small size of the two overlapping squares, but the fact that they change size depending on which one is selected. So the button that is not selected is encroached by the one that is selected (and overlaps it). This to me seems counter to interface design - ie, make the switch button smaller. Worse still is the no fill / no stroke button; insanely tiny.
I would gladly redesign this corner of Illustrator for Adobe, and I'm sure quite a few other people would too!

How can I create a pdf with exact rgb colours

I would like to create a pdf from a word file with exact the same rgb colours. I tried a lot of pdf-settings, disabled colourmanagement etc.- but the rgb-colour is always different. Same Problem with Illustrator etc.

Hi steffenoberlaender,
Could you please let me know what version of Acrobat and MS Office are you using.
Try exporting any other word file to PDF and check if this could be a document specific issue.
If possible, share both the sample word and PDF file with me via email so that I can check at my end.
I have sent you a private message with my contact ID details.
Regards,
Anubha

PS CS6 - How do I get colour picker to show the colour difference between new & current in the colour preview box?

In previous versions, I would click the on the colour selection boxes (tool bar) and the colour difference would show in the Colour Picker box. The selected colour (new or current) would show. The target circle would physically move around. Now all the colour number change, but the colour target doesn't move. I used to colour correct items by checking how close using the colour picker and rapidly switching back & forth. Now I can't do that. Help!

In a nutshell, you have to simplify the frame layer and erase the interior.
Here are the steps:
Create your background.
Add a new layer:
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Choose the Magic Wand Tool and give it these settings:
Click on the interior gray area of the frame with the Magic Wand to select it, and hit your Delete key:
Switch to the Eraser Tool and erase the stuff that's left in the middle:
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Can't see LabVIEW Colour Picker (Evaluation 2014 for Mac)

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I am new to LabVIEW, and am trying to make a chart I made appear transparent. According to http://forums.ni.com/t5/LabVIEW/Using-LabView-s-Color-Picker/m-p/575619/highlight/true#M269839, the colour picker is available as one of the numeric controls, however I can't see it in there, nor by shift and right mouse click, nor within the tools menu. I have attached a screenshot of what I see. Is anyone able to help me please?
Solved!
Go to Solution.
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"Context-clicking" is the generic, non-platform-specific term used to describe how to get a contextual menu to pop up on a node. On Windows this is commonly called right-clicking. On the Mac it can be accomplished by control-click. I am not sure what Linux uses.
After you have run the VI the color box control is no longer visible. From the block diagram context-click on the terminal. In the menu which pops up choose "Show Control" which will be about 1/3 down the menu. This will bring the front panel forward with the color box control positon (probably behind the chart) shown by dashed lines. If you cannot move it by clicking on it with the arrow cursor, then use the keyboard arrow keys to slide it out from behind the chart. Once is is exposed on the front panel, context click on the control and choose "Allow Transparent" from the pop-up menu (near the bottom of the list). Then the next time you run the VI the "T" box in the upper right corner of the color picker box should be available.
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That subVI has a chart but it appears that you probably want a graph. You might be better learning how the subVI works and applying the process to the graphs you already have.
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Why are my RGB colours dull in illustrator? The doc is set to RGB mode.

Hi,
I'm designing in Illustrator, RGB mode and using RGB colours. However, when I export to png, the colours in the png file are bright and vivid (the correct rgb colours I assume) but in illustrator they are dull. It's making it very hard for me as I actually want the duller colours, not the really bright ones. Attached is a screen shot to show the difference. Left is png, right is ai.

ah, thanks. I never knew that option was there. I just thought that if i'm working with RGB and using RGB colours, then they should output as the same?

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Hey Guys,
So i just bought a Dell u2410 screen the other day, and decided to hook it up via HDMI, It's being used for photo-editing, I tried to calibrate it, but in the sRGB mode i need to use the colours come out terrible, Reds are orange, etc. The screen itself, and it's settings arn't the problem. The problem is the Colour output of the MacBook, over HDMI and DisplayPort I've found it outputs the old YPbPr colour format, which for me is useless. if i connect it via VGA it'll output proper RGB colour format, but VGA is pretty crappy, and i ideally need to use a Digital output, I've searched all over the net for a solution, but haven't found one. one thing i did find is it will supposedly output RGB over DVI, but alas i don't have a DVI cable and do not wish to have to buy one...
so what i want to know, is it possible to change the output colour format for HDMI and DisplayPort to RGB instead of YPbPr?
Note 1: If i boot into Win7 via BootCamp it outputs RGB and has the option for YPbPr...
Note 2: It isn't the ICC colour profile that's the problem.

Thanks for the link to the Dell discussion forum.
Reading that thread and half a dozen others on the Apple forum is really a sad day for me, having owned every single iphone, ipad, Mac mini, MacBook Pro that Apple has put out, the latest Retina MBP has completely disappointed me. It seems neither Dell nor Apple care about the users who need the correct color space for digital photography.
I bought the latest and greatest MacBook Pro this year and it doesn't connect to an external monitor in the correct color space for me to do digital photography? This is really a sad situation. Will be returning it as soon as I migrate the data out.
I would gladly buy an Apple Thunderbolt display, but just can't stand its glare, not to mention it's limited resolution @2560x1200 which is smaller than the 30" @2560x1600.

When I open my Colour Picker, the middle block (which normally shows the colour in a gradient of shades) is just a solid colour depending on which H, S, B, R, G, B I have selected. How do I revert it back to normal?

When I open my Colour Picker, the middle block (which normally shows the colour in a gradient of shades) is just a solid colour depending on which H, S, B, R, G, B I have selected. How do I revert it back to normal?

Becky,
It seems that the issue is caused by a corrupt folder called en_US or similar (depending on language) within the Adobe Illustrator 18 Settings folder, see post #7 by Jules in this thread,
https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1595766
so the solution should be to move or rename that folder (or the whole Adobe Illustrator 18 Settings folder).
You can find the folder in Move the folder (follow the link with that name) with Illy closed.
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You know how when you're painting, you can hold ALT and it will pick a colour from the canvas? Well, for some reason, mine still picks up the colour but it sets it to the background colour instead of the foreground colour. And when I actually select the colour picker tool, it will only select the background colour but when I hold Alt, it selects the foreground colour. Basically it's flipped where it's supposed to select. Do you know how to flip it back? It's driving me mad. Thanks.

In the Color Palette (Window>Color) click on the foreground swatch. A "focus ring" will appear around it.

Dvacore.dll error between CP5.5 and PS5.1 using colour picker

Hi all.
If I have CP 5.5 (or 5) open at the same time as PS5.1 (not sure about other versions) and I use the colour picker (eye dropper) in CP, all is fine until I move the mouse icon onto the live PS window when I get the following error.
Has anyone come across this at all previously?
It's damned annoying as it makes sense to have PS and CP open when creating e-learning containing images.
Is there a fix for it?
It happens on both work computers as well as trial versions installed on other machines. (extensive testing to prove this)
HELP!
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You certainly DON'T need to know anything about programming DLLs in order to log a bug about getting an error message. Let the propeller-heads worry about that. Just log the bug and outline the steps required to produce it. If I was able to get it, then many other users would too.
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