Colour palette improvment

[J. Wallace]

I've always thought it would be nice when selecting colors from the color palette if the cursor would induce an enlargement of the selection. I find I really don't know the look of the selection until after when it's in use due to the small size preview.

[Benson Shaw]

+1

Bigger with hover would be great!

Or the whole palette opens bigger.

Or other strategy to enlarge those isty bitsy swatches.

Didn't the Windows versions used to have a bigger color palette than the Mac version. I think I saw the bigger WinOS palette as far back as v2009 (was that XP?)

Can anyone verify?

-B

Edited February 27, 2015 by Benson Shaw

[Ozzie]

VW also needs a Color Picker which produces Html color codes as well as RGB

When picked they should be able to be copied to clip as an option or automatically

When saving Custom Colors they as an option somewhere should be able to be saved to "My Custom Colors" rather than disappearing after a shutdown or reboot which is what I think happens now

Edited February 27, 2015 by Ozzie

[zoomer]

+1

[Bas Vellekoop]

+1

[Markvl]

+1 Agreed. The little colour swatches often get washed out and do not accurately reflect the true colour your choosing.

[Kevin McAllister]

If you're going to go down this path then VW should have proper colour management too so things look as expected when brought into other programs like Photoshop, Illustrator etc.

KM

[PVA - Admin]

What I am taking away from this so far:

1) Ability to view as well as enter colors in RGB, CMYK and HTML. (Does anyone use HSB?)

2) Colors should remain in the same color system they were picked or entered in. At the moment everything in Vectorworks converts to RGB regardless of how you entered it.

3) A larger/more obvious way of viewing the currently selected or hovered-over color, current little swatches are too small especially on higher res monitors.

Currently we use the built in color pickers within the OS, which change slightly or dramatically with each OS version. This also limits its usability compared to programs like Photoshop where the color picker is a major feature.

Does the one below seem far more useful as an example for this improvement? If not, does it have any limitations that you would want addressed as well?

[img:center]https://techboard.vectorworks.net/ubbthreads.php?ubb=download&Number=11854&filename=colorpicker1.PNG[/img]

Edited February 27, 2015 by JimW

[Kevin McAllister]

As long as we don't lose the ability to pick a colour from anything onscreen with the colour sampler (Mac)... I use this all the time.

KM

[PVA - Admin]

Oh heck no, thats pretty much all I use. Sorry, this example was pulled from a UI where the picking a color from onscreen widget-thing resided outside the color picker.

I would think most would want it to remain within the picker in an upgraded one for Vectorworks.

[Benson Shaw]

+1 for Jim W takeaways 1,2,3.

Adding a move-the-dot picker is good option.

But fer sure keep the discreet swatch palletes with the standard, classic and custom colors.

-B

[Matt Panzer]

I use HSB almost always.

[PVA - Admin]

Good enough for me! I'll include it in the request explicitly.