Edit: The dumbing down of color palette for PC is annoying as hell

lou_harper

I use the color palette quite a lot. It used to be nice with all the different options, and especially being able to save custom colors with names! Now there is only one palette, no option to name, no option to adjust the saved color and resave, and you keep saving over the first color if you're not extra careful. And there is only a limited number of slots to save colors.

Could we please scrap this aberration and go back to the 4.12 version?

Edit: I just realized that it's not a version issue but the difference between Mac and PC. I just made the move to PC and apparently the color paletto on the mac is waaaay better. Could we pleasy have the same on PC?

 

Catherine3678ab

For the Company to hear improvement suggestions, a CS ticket needs to be submitted via the Help options, to Technical Support.

I'm still back on 4.16.x - didn't realize that the color picker was changed, you might find this thread helpful:

https://www.daz3d.com/forums/discussion/587476/colour-picker-preset-colours-easy-to-swap

lou_harper

It's not so much the color picker, but the color palette. And apparently it's not a version issue but platform.Fist pic is pc, the other two are a coupl of otions from mac. All those little icons on top give other options.

Catherine3678ab

Oh dear, for the Mac, do NOT buy the Color Picker for Daz Studio. Sadly it's Windows only.

Catherine3678ab

lou_harper said:

I use the color palette quite a lot. It used to be nice with all the different options, and especially being able to save custom colors with names! Now there is only one palette, no option to name, no option to adjust the saved color and resave, and you keep saving over the first color if you're not extra careful. And there is only a limited number of slots to save colors.

Could we please scrap this aberration and go back to the 4.12 version?

Edit: I just realized that it's not a version issue but the difference between Mac and PC. I just made the move to PC and apparently the color paletto on the mac is waaaay better. Could we pleasy have the same on PC?

 

hehehe ... I don't think dear ol' whathisname would go for that lol ...

Zylox

If I'm looking for a color to use, I will go to Wikipedia.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colors:_A–F

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_colors_(compact) - Edit: it didn't copy the web address properly, so copy and paste the (compact) at the end of the url.

Once I find a color I like, I copy the RGB values into DAZ Studio. I know it's not the same, but it can give some nice results.

richardandtracy

The PC one is a themed version of the standard Windows 'Colour Picker Dialogue' built into Windows that has been part of Windows in one form or other since Win95. I've used it myself in my programs. I do like the Mac one (never seen it before), it may be interesting to try programming something like it as a component that could be used between programs. Regards, Richard.

Drip

richardandtracy said:

The PC one is a themed version of the standard Windows 'Colour Picker Dialogue' built into Windows that has been part of Windows in one form or other since Win95. I've used it myself in my programs. I do like the Mac one (never seen it before), it may be interesting to try programming something like it as a component that could be used between programs. Regards, Richard.

The Windows Colour Picker Dialogue is one of the most ancient user interface pieces in Windows. Almost everything else had some graphical update over time, but for some reason, the artists designing the UI for Windows never felt the need to complain about the tools they had to work with. Especially the custom colours feature is unintuitive (too easy to make a mistake and permanently overwrite your favourite shades) and very limited. But, I'm not sure M$ can do much about it without running into patent and copyright issues. Software Developers lik Daz have more options to create a custom solution for themselves, but that will cost time and resources. For developers of graphical softtware, the intend for a custom colour picker is often there, but the standard one is included as a placeholder. And by the end of development of the software, they either forget about it, or run out of time and resources, and the feature ends up in the freezer.

lou_harper

Drip said:

richardandtracy said:

The PC one is a themed version of the standard Windows 'Colour Picker Dialogue' built into Windows that has been part of Windows in one form or other since Win95. I've used it myself in my programs. I do like the Mac one (never seen it before), it may be interesting to try programming something like it as a component that could be used between programs. Regards, Richard.

The Windows Colour Picker Dialogue is one of the most ancient user interface pieces in Windows. Almost everything else had some graphical update over time, but for some reason, the artists designing the UI for Windows never felt the need to complain about the tools they had to work with. Especially the custom colours feature is unintuitive (too easy to make a mistake and permanently overwrite your favourite shades) and very limited. But, I'm not sure M$ can do much about it without running into patent and copyright issues. Software Developers lik Daz have more options to create a custom solution for themselves, but that will cost time and resources. For developers of graphical softtware, the intend for a custom colour picker is often there, but the standard one is included as a placeholder. And by the end of development of the software, they either forget about it, or run out of time and resources, and the feature ends up in the freezer.

I had no idea that Was a Windows thing. How sad baffling. 

To everyone else: once again, I do NOT need a color picker and know perfectly well how to mix a color. My complaint is with the limited number of custom color slots, the lack of naming option, the awkwardness of their use, and the high probability of overriding previously saved custom colors. It's inadequate.

WendyLuvsCatz

ah yes, you get crayons on Mac

that said you can change the display of the DAZ one by holding ctl while clicking the diffuse to sliders

nemesis10

WendyLuvsCatz said:

ah yes, you get crayons on Mac

that said you can change the display of the DAZ one by holding ctl while clicking the diffuse to sliders

The crayons are actually pretty nice; the other visualizations of a color use values but the crayons that you define  can be given a name like Vicky's Makeup-free lipstick! The Mac OS color system was designed to be part of the OS from the start so it had to be scalable and versatile.

wsterdan

Crayons, yes, but also RGB, CMYK, and others, all with the eyedropper available to choose a colour from your scene.

It was available on the Mac version of DAZ until the the DAZ upgrade to run on Big Sur and was simply the Mac's built-in colour pickers, hopefully it'll be available again when we jump to 5.0.

== Walt Sterdan

WendyLuvsCatz

Carrara has all those except the crayons on Windows