Change photoshop color picker to wheel mac#

And I often want a document-specific list of named colours.Īs I've not tried VW2023 yet I don't know if it's improved things in that regard.Īs a more general point (and I think it's been requested before) really what would be good would be the ability to manage colours as 'styles' at least to some extent. I know I can make a custom palette but that's a bit cumbersome and buried in submenus. In any case what I really want, is an easy way to choose and name colours, and then have these displayed in a list to pick from. Or maybe I have imported something from another document in the meantime, and so there is more than one red in the 'active document' list. Ok, so I should probably go to the 'active document' button after the first time I select it, but sometimes I am lazy. In the 'Classic Vectorworks Colours' pallette which is 'standard red'? Is it the one in slot 8 along the first row, or the first one in row 2? It doesn't necessarily matter much - but if I've chosen one, I have to remember which one it was, for the next time I come to pick it. And it's actually quite easily to unintentionally have two slightly different reds in circulation on the same document. For example in some documents I might only want red and black. In Vectorworks I am usually more interested in keeping the number of different colours under control and to a minimum. In a photo editing/painting/drawing app I will frequently be looking for lots of different colours and wanting to adjust them quite closely. Of course this will be different for everyone, but the way I use colour in Vectorworks is different from something like Affinity photo. If the team at Vectorworks needs inspiration on a color picker because Apple's can't work, please look to Affinity Photo's color wheel or Concepts for some really good ones.Ĭomparison of the old vs the new in Darkmode. It will be interesting to see if other programs that use Apple's color picker natively are unable to in future releases based on your statement of it being 'a very limited API'. Given these points raised in the thread, I feel like this is yet another case of 'if it ain't broke, why did Vectorworks 'fix it'?' Now the background of the color picker seems to be related to the OS dialog box background color, which could make things challenging for certain situations. Previous versions of Vectorworks used the white background regardless of your 'dark mode' setting, which was good. Our work is produced in a white or cream colored drawing space of the most part, shouldn't the background of the picker match? That would need white space between the chips though. This looks more like AutoCAD than Vectorworks (that's not a good thing in my mind). Is on a grey backdrop instead of the traditional white, which reads completely different compared to prior versions Reduces the 'white space' between colors, which has a host of implications. Why? Why? Why? Does anyone think the new order of color somehow makes life better compared to the historic precedent? Then named the predecessor to 'Standard Vectorworks Colors - Legacy 2022' Has rearranged the order of the 'Standard Vectorworks Colors' Has a clunky drop down instead of buttons for switching between palettes Lacks the Apple's color chip palette, which makes it easy to grab colors quickly in Vectorworks and taking them to other applications People learning color theory are taught the basics on a color wheel for a reason.

Lacks a color wheel method of picking, a fundamental art and science tool used for ages.

Change photoshop color picker to wheel mac#

These changes in 2023 on a Mac are really disappointing for a number of critical reasons.

I just don't see a good or useful reason for it, but perhaps I'm in the minority. Loy Can you help us understand why the noted changes below were made?