Color Wheel

**Dr Missile** · January 20th, 2008, 03:17 AM

Hey Guys,

I don't really post here very often, but I have been working on an idea that has been knocking around in my head for a while - a color wheel, to be used as a universal painting palette, that represents 3 dimensional color (HSV) in 2d. I would like to get people's feedback on it's practicality and whether or not it is of any use, and I am certainly open to suggestions. The idea is a single image that allows for single click selection of as many colors as possible. Let me know what you guys think. If its use isn't self explanatory and you would like a deeper explanation of its implementation I'd be happy to oblige.

**JFS** · January 20th, 2008, 06:05 AM

I don't think this belongs here. It's interesting, but having to drag that pic up to pick a color and go back to the pic you're working on... is kinda like any color picker in most programs.
However, if you're designing a painting prog from the ground up -- having something like this as a pop-up menu will be excellent from the getgo.

**Dr Missile** · January 20th, 2008, 08:43 PM

Originally Posted by JFS

I don't think this belongs here. It's interesting, but having to drag that pic up to pick a color and go back to the pic you're working on... is kinda like any color picker in most programs.
However, if you're designing a painting prog from the ground up -- having something like this as a pop-up menu will be excellent from the getgo.

I definitely hear what you are saying. I do think it is a matter of personal work flow. I tend to work as small as possible (without fitting my image to screen) and will have several images open in Photoshop open already for reference so having this open isn't really an issue for me. Of course, ideally, Photoshop could simply use painters color picker since this is effectively trying to emulate what it offers - a color wheel with compliments that mix to gray.

Anyone know of a way to keep a particular Photoshop window to remain on top at all times?