Palette Selection in Programs
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Printed Date: 13 September 2025 at 4:13am
Topic: Palette Selection in Programs
Posted By: Strawzzboy64
Subject: Palette Selection in Programs
Date Posted: 14 June 2016 at 8:50am
I am so used to this thing for palette selection. I feel like it makes things easy because "everything's there." However, it seems not all programs have this for their color selection, so I guess it's kind of hard for me to move on from mspaint. (at least for palette selection.) Anyway, I have two main questions. 1) Which programs do or don't have this color selection option? 2) Which color selection option do you prefer? It looks like sliders are pretty common, whether it's RGB or HSV, etc. I actually want to see if I can get used to RGB sliders because I feel like you have to have good knowledge of how colors "interact" to really make use of it. I don't know if that's how it is though. I also think an HSV slider would be easier for me to transition to. It seems like it's very similar to mspaint's color editor's setup anyway. |
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Posted By: eishiya
Date Posted: 14 June 2016 at 11:40am
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Is that MSPaint's colour picker? Though I like its basic set up, actually selecting the exact colour I want has always felt a bit awkward. It can be challenging to hit an exact spot at times, and you can't nudge the colour cursor with the keyboard to make up for it, and the Hue/Sat/Lum boxes can't be adjusted with the Up/Down arrows. My personal favourite is using HSB sliders:  It functions very similarly, except instead of having a 2D hue-saturation grid, it separates everything into sliders, and each slider is coloured according to the current values of the other sliders. Because it's all sliders, I can easily get related colours for my palette by picking an existing colour and adjusting its parameters separately, but without having to edit numbers as I would in MSPaint. The best part is because it takes up so little space, I can have it as part of my toolbar right above my layers window, I don't have to open a separate colour picker window. I think RGB, CMYK, etc sliders are rubbish for doing art because they don't tell you anything about the relationships between colours, since they're based on their physical components instead. HSB deals with the three dimensions of colour that are actually relevant to artwork - hue, saturation, and brightness. |
Posted By: neota
Date Posted: 15 June 2016 at 4:27am
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It's not very common to have a full diagram in pixel-art-specialized software -- sliders are much more common. OTOH non-pixel-art-specialized software like Photoshop and GIMP have selectors that are similar to MSPaint. RGB sliders are really only useful at the very final stage of finetuning, and often not even then. Not recommended. Also, knowledge won't help much -- you would be learning the https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SRGB - deformities of the sRGB colorspace rather than about how color actually works. https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wiki/mypaint/mypaint/v1.2-HCY-Wheel.png - HCY (MyPaint, Krita) is my preferred type of color selector. It's like HSV/HSB/etc except more consistent / easy to work with. Circle (for HC) + bar (for Y) layout, docked on the side of the image display. If I can't use that, and I -can- drop colors onto the app, then I'll use http://www.gpick.org/ - GPick - mainly the LCH sliders, but it provides a bunch of picking methods, among which I particularly picking favor from a gradient between two colors. The color scheme generator is also a pretty handy way to generate a 'base' palette of 3-6 colors. ------------- absolutely. |