Select Color Panel - Color Picker

The select color panel should allow you to select a color from any part of the screen, not just the spectrum in the color panel itself.
This would make local adjustments MUCH easier, especially in the case where there are tonal gradations of an object.

Click in the panel and drag onto the image to get the color picker.

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Color of selected tab panel tab

Hello all,
I'd like to know the orange like color of the upper part of a selected tab panel tab, see the picture below.
Actually, these are two colors, orange and a darker, 'shaded' orange. I don't mind which color value I can obtain, but I'd like to use the same color for other controls (LED, decoration frame) as well.
Does this color depend on the Windows theme? If so, I'd be happy about a possibility of obtaining this property programmatically.
If this color is always the same, I can obtain it myself using Photoshop...
Thanks a lot,
Wolfgang
Solved!
Go to Solution.

When the panel has ATTR_CONFORM_TO_SYSTEM_THEME set, CVI lets Windows draw the tabs by calling DrawThemeBackground with partIDs such as TABP_TABITEM, etc. The picture that you posted is the XP theme. The Windows 7 theme is different and it looks like this...
I checked out the Windows function GetSysColor, but didn't see a way to get that color. Anyway, since the tabs draw differently on XP and Vista/Windows 7, you may not want to use that color in different controls.

3d painting issue - why is my selected value showing up different then the actual color I'm picking?

Love the CS5's 3d painting features but I'm running into a really frustrating issue:
When I select a value from the 3d object and try to paint with that value, it's showing up as a different value altogether (the image hopefully illustrates this much better than words).
Not sure if it's got something to do the the lights setup or something else but I cannot figure it out. Anyone else running into this or have a solution?
Thanks!!!

Ok, let me try to be explain the issue in more detail.
Note:
All 3D layer settings are default. No lights, ambient color setting, etc have been tweaked.
Description:
In order to paint out texture seams on a 3d character model, I have imported an .obj of the model into PS CS5 and applied a texture map to it which I have previously painted.
Using the eye dropper I have selected a color value from the sides of the seam and have attempted to paint that value over the seam to remove it.
Results:
The color value picked from a texture applied to a 3d model which is 161,161,173, is not the same color value when painted directly back onto the model. It has now mysteriously turned into 152,152,177.
Expected results:
When a color value is picked from a texture applied to a 3d model (161,161,173) and painted back onto the textured model it should remain exactly the same (161,161,173)
I hope lighting/shading is not figured in when color picking. That would make your results completely unpredictable. It could possibly be what is happening but is there a way turn this off or work around it?
Thanks for the help.

In the Color picker, the selection in the color palette is different than preview.

Working in Illustrator CS5 on a Mac. When choosing a color in the palette, the preview showing up is different than what is in the palette. If I hit "OK" the actual color chosen is the one in the palette, not the preview window... Including some pics for reference.
In my 10+ years of using Illustrator, i have never seen this.
I am using a Dell monitor on a mac... not sure if that would make a difference.

The new/old color preview box is not color managed and thus not reliable. I think that's the way it has always been. It will be the same as the selected color if you assign to your document the color space of your monitor using Edit > Assign Profile. People without a custom monitor color profile by default will not encounter this problem - they always see the colors wrong but consistent. Once you have a custom made monitor color profile you will see a difference between the same color in color managed and non-color managed software and sometimes parts of the same program like Illustrator can be color and non-color managed.

Color picker picks wrong Pantone color in color library

I have a Pantone swatch and a Pantone color book that contain the same colors. With the color library open in the color picker, I select a color from the swatch using the dropper and most times it gives me the correct color.
However, some times it doesn't.
I have verified that the 8 bit RGB values of the colors are identical in the color book and swatch (as shown in the info panel), but still it gives me a different color. Both files are in RGB color, with the swatch stored in 16bit and the color book in 8 bit (file format limitations).
What causes the wrong color to be selected? How does photoshop calculate the "distance" between the colors to determine which is closest? I would expect that it should select the color that has identical RGB values, even though the one it does select is relatively close in RGB space.

The color picker always fails on the same colors. My monitor profile is sRGB. Every color profile setting I know of is on sRGB and it doesn't seem to make a difference.
In the image below I've tried to show what is happening. In the top version, the incorrectly chosen color (wrong red value) is selected in the color library, while the info panel shows the RGB value of the swatch color that the mouse is over. In the bottom version, the correct color was manually selected to show that it does indeed exist in the color book. In this case the RGB value in the info panel (from the swatch) and the RGB is the color library are the same.

How to use IMAQ extract color panel in a LabView file?

I want to change a color image into a greyscale image. Therefore I want to use the function IMAQ extract color panels but I don't know how to insert it in my LabView application.
Please, can anyone give me some advice ?!!!
Thx, Birgit

Birgit,
If you want all of the color planes, you can use IMAQ ExtractColorPlanes. Allocate an 8-bit image for each of the color planes. Wire the original color image and each of the 8-bit images for the color planes on the left and bottom of the vi. The outputs on the right side will be the same images, and they will each contain the desired color plane. The input at the top of the vi controls which color planes are extracted (RGB, HSI, etc.) Grayscale will probably be the I plane in HSI.
If you just want a grayscale image, use IMAQ ExtractSingleColorPlane instead. Wire the color image to Image Src, and wire an 8-bit image to Image Dest. Select the color plane using the top input, and it will come out on the right side.
Bruce
Bruce Ammons
Ammons Engineering

It's possible to disable custom color from color picker?

Hi guys!
I've searched in the threads about color picker but I found anything about it...
It's possible to disable the option to select a custom color? I work in a enterprise who makes softwares to brazilian clients, and not everybody understands english phrases...
Another way it's to translate the option, but I don't know if is possible too.
Thanks!

You definitely need to add the stylesheet to the Scene, not to anything else. If you take my example and change
scene.getStylesheets()...
to
root.getStylesheets()...
you'll see that it won't work any more.
The difference between this and the css you used is that the css you used is applied to the display of the color picker button; you need to apply styles to the popup (the color palette), which is not contained in your VBox or AnchorPanes. Notice how the font has changed for the name of the color in the button, but it hasn't changed for the "Custom Color" label you are trying to remove.
Somewhere there is some code that is adding the VBox you are subclassing to a Scene, and setting that scene into a stage. Your best option (perhaps second best option, see below) is to find that code so you can add the stylesheet to the Scene itself.
If you're working within a framework someone else has written, and can't access or change the code where the scene is defined, you have another option that I can see. Every Node has a scene property that refers to the scene to which that node belongs. So you could observe changes to that property and when it's updated, add the stylesheet to the scene.
So here is a hack to make my original hack work, in the event that you cannot access the scene directly, for some reason:
final String suppressCustomColorCss = getClass().getResource( "noCustomColorPicker.css").toExternalForm();
colorPicker.sceneProperty().addListener(new ChangeListener<Scene>() {
@Override
public void changed(ObservableValue<? extends Scene> observable,
Scene oldScene, Scene newScene) {
if (newScene != null) {
List<String> cssClasses = newScene.getStylesheets();
if (!cssClasses.contains(suppressCustomColorCss)) {
cssClasses.add(suppressCustomColorCss);
This code basically says "when the color picker becomes part of a new scene, add the stylesheet to that scene".
At this point, you're applying hack on top of hack to get the effect you need. I think if I were in this situation I would just go ahead and define my own color picker. All you really need is a MenuButton, a property to hold the selected color, and a popup with a layout of controls to choose an arbitrary color. It would be a bit of work, but shouldn't be too hard. If you take this option (which I think may be your best bet), it's more work now but it will be clear what you are doing - when you (or other programmers on your team) come back to the code later you'll understand how it works much better.
You should also file a couple of feature requests. One for API to enable/disable the option to choose a custom color, as this seems like a reasonable piece of functionality to have. The other should be for properly internationalized text for the labels in the color picker, as these are currently just hard coded into the source code in English.

Using the Color Panel in HSB mode

Using the Color Panel in HSB mode. I start by selecting a color in the spectrum at the bottom using the eyedropper.
As I drag the eyedropper through the spectrum it seems the H slider moves to the same color.
1. Is the H slider showing the same exact thing that is in the color spectrum at the bottom?
Thanks.

Yes if you drag a strait line so that the other two sliders don't move. In other words you are changing only the Hue (H). If you drag up and down the other two sliders Saturation and Brightness will be affected.
Hi Grant, nice to see you again

Breaking Apart Images and Bitmaps in Color Panel

When I break apart a bitmap and use the eyedropper to sample
it and then fill in a shape, I notice that the bitmap also stays in
the color panel as a bitmap. Will this become a permanent part of
my Flash installation or is it only accessible for this file? I
opened a new file and it did not seem to appear for it. I just want
to make sure I understand the purpose of it displaying in the color
panel. What is the point of this?
Thanks.

Not sure I totally understand - the point is so you can pick
this swatch "color" again in this
document. If you delete the bitmap from the document's
library it will go away. If you open a new
doc it won't be there because the new doc doesn't contaqin
any imported/broken apart/color-picked
bitmaps.
I have to ask, what were you expecting to happen with this
particular swatch? Or rather, is there a
better workflow solution for you perhaps? Just curious.
Chris Georgenes
Adobe Community Expert
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StanWelks wrote:
> When I break apart a bitmap and use the eyedropper to
sample it and then fill
> in a shape, I notice that the bitmap also stays in the
color panel as a bitmap.
> Will this become a permanent part of my Flash
installation or is it only
> accessible for this file? I opened a new file and it did
not seem to appear for
> it. I just want to make sure I understand the purpose of
it displaying in the
> color panel. What is the point of this?
>
> Thanks.
>

UI feedback: Color panel

I think the colour panel design could be improved with a few relatively small changes:
IMO the sliders are too narrow. Changing values using the slider arrows is very imprecise as a 1px horizontal movement moves at least three units of colour - if not more.
There is some wasted space to the right of the entry fields. It would be better if those fields were moved right over to the right hand side, made smaller in size to accommodate the three digits they display, and the slider bars were made wider, using the space that was released.
Ideally I'd like to see the slider bars in this panel 'auto-expand' - perhaps up to 3x their current width (1px = 1/255 unit) when the panel itself is widened.
I'd also like to see the spectrum bar widened to match - and made about 1.5x as deep as it is now. Currently it's too small to be of any significant use IMO.
Mike A

Good catch, I found several percentages that are not slider selectable anymore for anything with a 0-100% field. Based on some quick tests these percentages are not selectable:
color panel (only in CS6)
92 75 58 42 25 8
layers panel opacity/fill (same as CS5)
75 25
layer style popup (only in CS6)
87 37 12
options bar (same as CS5)
75 26

Photoshop CC 2014 - color panel resizing by itself?

Hello,
I am wondering if anyone else has reported (or even experienced) the new color panel in Photoshop CC 2014 resizing itself when maximizing and then restoring the Photoshop CC 20114 application frame?
Here are some images to illustrate the issue I am experiencing:
This is on initial launch of PS CC 2014 after install and then reboot.
This is the initial maximize of PS CC 2014 application frame (using green button).
This is the initial restore command (using green button).
This is the second maximize (using green button).
This is the second restore command (using green button).
This is the third maximize (using green button).
... and the fourth maximize (using green button).
As you can probably see through the progressive process that the color panel is stretching vertically with each maximize / restore combination. It seems to stop stretching after the fourth series.
Machine specs:
MacBook Pro 17" (late 2011)
2.5 Ghz. i7 Intel Processor
AMD Radeon HD 6770M - 1 GB VRAM
16 GB RAM - OWC Brand
480 GB SSD - OWC Brand
OS X 10.9.3 - Clean Install (all updates installed)
PRAM and SMC refreshed
Permissions repaired
Disk verified
Clean Install of:
Adobe Creative Cloud app
Adobe Photoshop CC 2014 app
Adobe Illustrator CC 2014 app
No plug-ins or other third-party add-ons.
I thought I would mention it in case this hasn't been reported yet (or perhaps there is something bizarre going on with my machine).
Thanks for any insight or acknowledgement.

Just giving this a bump and a quick note.
I just performed a clean install of OS X 10.9.3 again on machine spec'd above and then installed Photoshop CS6 and Illustrator CS6 perpetual license versions. While the new color panel seen in PS CC 2014 is not part of CS6, I wanted to test to see if the color panel was resizing itself as I saw with PS CC 2014. It is not.
I am running Adobe CC 2014 versions at work on a Dell workstation under Windows 7 Professional. I will test on that system to see if the same resizing of color panel by itself occurs and post back sometime tomorrow.
Note - if an engineer, staff member or moderator could mention whether this has been logged as a potential issue that would be great. I will of course log a report with a link to this post this morning.
Thanks for any response.

I'm using an iMac running Os X Yosemite, Photoshop CS5 Extended, R2880 Epson printer In the Print Settings dialog box, I can't select Color, Advanced BW or Grayscale unless I select "Printer Manages Color". The pull down menu is grayed out. Even with "pr

I’m using an iMac running Os X Yosemite, Photoshop CS5 Extended, R2880 Epson printer In the Print Settings dialog box, I can’t select Color, Advanced BW or Grayscale unless I select “Printer Manages Color”. The pull down menu is grayed out. Even with “printer manages color” the tif or jpg image comes out in color overlaid with black. (See example - printer1. image on left is close to what it should be). Photoshop has no updates pending. I’ve downloaded the latest Epson driver which was working fine just before the problem occurred

Is your Photoshop CS5 updated to 12.1?
Are you on Yosemite 10.10.1 or Yosemite 10.10.2?
Did you apply the recent Epson software 2.1.9 update?
What type of file is it (file format)? What bit depth and what color space?
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If you give complete and detailed information about your setup and the issue at hand,
such as your platform (Mac or Win),
exact versions of your OS, of Photoshop (not just "CS6", but something like CS6v.13.0.6) and of Bridge,
your settings in Photoshop > Preference > Performance
the type of file you were working on,
machine specs, such as total installed RAM, scratch file HDs, total available HD space, video card specs, including total VRAM installed,
what troubleshooting steps you have taken so far,
what error message(s) you receive,
if having issues opening raw files also the exact camera make and model that generated them,
if you're having printing issues, indicate the exact make and model of your printer, paper size, image dimensions in pixels (so many pixels wide by so many pixels high). if going through a RIP, specify that too.
etc.,
someone may be able to help you (not necessarily this poster, who is not a Windows user).
a screen shot of your settings or of the image could be very helpful too.
Please read this FAQ for advice on how to ask your questions correctly for quicker and better answers:
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/419981?tstart=0
Thanks!

WorkOrderList TileView Row & Selected Row Background Color Change

Hi,
     can we change the background color of WorkorderList TileView Row & Selected Row Background color ?. Actually i am trying to change the color of both in WorkOrderList but it not reflecting any color on my Agentry client. I used a style on Tile List View Data/Style.
but these applied style on Rows & Selected Rows are not working in Agentry client.
if any other alternate solution exist in Agentry, please guide me.
i am using following...
sap mobile platform-2.3.3
Thanks & Regard
Manish Kumar
Tags edited by: Michael Appleby

Hi Jason
      Yes using Image we can achieve that goal but i want to use a background color instead of Image background. Finally I used a background color on label and set the that label field on Screen. And It's showing the background color on WorkOrderList Row & Selected Row that what i wanted. But on both Row & Selected TileView Screen showing white outline that i don't want and also i could not remove the default Selected Blue Background Color.
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How do you change the workspace panel color in Edge Animate CC (the stage is OK) to a lighter gray, I have the dark gray now. I have Win 7 Pro SP3?

How do you change the workspace panel color in Edge Animate CC (the stage is OK) to a lighter gray, I have the dark gray now. I have Win 7 Pro SP3?

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How to change a selected cell background color in JTable?

Hi all,
I am trying to change the background color of a selected cell by clicking on that particular cell. DefaultTableCellRenderer class provides setBackground(Color c) to change the background color of unselected cells. Is there a way to change a selected cell background color?
Thank you,
Arthur

Write your own renderer (eg. extending DefaultTableRenderer) and put in getTableCellRendererComponent method something like this:
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