Painter's Picker specifications
What's new in version 2.0b1
Version 2.0 adds several new features, but more than anything, it represents a nearly complete redesign of the back-end of Painter's Picker compared to version 1.1.
Web Safe Color Space
Now you can use Painter's Picker to choose related colors that are sure to show up the same on any browser that supports color. The palette of web-safe colors is its own color space, equivalent to CMYK or RGB, so any color you choose will work in any browser as long as you use the Web-Safe color space.
New Color Schemes
Version 2.0 includes some new color schemes
Web Safe Color Space
Now you can use Painter's Picker to choose related colors that are sure to show up the same on any browser that supports color. The palette of web-safe colors is its own color space, equivalent to CMYK or RGB, so any color you choose will work in any browser as long as you use the Web-Safe color space.
- For the web-safe color space, added a system for demonstrating the confidence Painter's Picker has in the relationship between colors. Colors whose arcs are larger are actually closer to the real color that Painter's Picker has calculated. When the different colors in a scheme are not very closely related, a circle is drawn based on the size of the key color's arc. The more divergent the colors in the scheme are, the darker and wider the circle will become.
- When choosing any of the "nearest web safe" options in the color info menu, the color space now changes to the "Web Safe" color space.
- In the "Web Safe" color space, if the current hue, saturation, and brightness of a color being displayed do not match the hue, saturation and brightness calculated for its current position, then the check-mark does not appear beside "web safe" in that color's info menu. Choosing "web safe" from the info menu will change the key color to the closest web-safe color to that color.
- double-clicking the key color while in web-safe mode will now change the key color to the nearest web-safe color first, then a second double-click will change to the previous or next scheme
New Color Schemes
Version 2.0 includes some new color schemes
- golden tetradic - a tetradic scheme built around the angles of the golden rectangle
- golden triadic - a triadic scheme built around a 36-36-108 isosceles triangle
- golden complementary - a split-complementary scheme built around the golden triangle (72-36-36)
- golden alternate complementary - the same colors as the golden complementary, but with the actual complementary color added as well.
- golden split complementary - splits the two complements of the golden complementary scheme into four complements.
- 10 color wheel - divides the color wheel into 10 evenly distributed colors.
- compound analogous - combines into one scheme all the colors from the other 4 analogous color schemes, for those times when you want a full range of analogous colors.
- Added the ability to export to a color list. At any point, you can choose "Create Color List" from the Actions menu and a color list with the current colors in your scheme will be created and added to the "Color Palettes" color picker for future use.
- Added the ability to enter mathematical expressions into the text fields, including a few common constants like pi and phi and also the ability to translate radians to degrees. All together, this makes it possible to enter this kind of expression: ยน/6R + 45*7 (which, by the way, is 345 degrees).
- For a long time, double-clicking on the key color would switch Painter's Picker to the next scheme. This is still true, but now holding down the option key while double-clicking will instead move to the previous scheme.
- using your scroll wheel outside of the color wheel will now rotate through the schemes list.
- The large and small color wheels now synchronize when the user selects a different color than the key color. Before, selecting a color in one wheel would cause the other to set that wheel as key, which could get confusing.
- Changing brightness, saturation or color space when the selected color is not also the key color no longer resets the selected color.
- Improved the accuracy of color calculations for the artistic (RYB) color wheel.
- Changed the way that Painter's Picker drags colors to make it more compatible with some programs.
- Painter's Picker doesn't steal the keyboard focus nearly as often, so using it doesn't require nearly as much window-clicking as before.
Exporting to a Color List
Note: if you have the color panel open in more than one application when you create a color list, then you may need to quit and reopen the other application before the color list will appear in its color palettes list.
User Interface Improvements
Bug Fixes
General
- Publisher Old Jewel Software
- Publisher web site http://www.oldjewelsoftware.com/
- Release date March 21, 2004
- Date added March 20, 2004
- Version 2.0b1
Category
- Category Digital Photo Software
- Subcategory Media Management
System requirements
- Operating systems Mac OS X 10.3, Mac OS X 10.2
- Additional requirements Mac OS X 10.2 or higher
Download information
- File size 287.11K
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Pricing
- License model Purchase
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