Collecting colours in a panel

[David_Fine]

I have been animating and not using colours much until now. So I want to save colours to a panel as I find ones I like, but I can't figure out how to do that. The colour panel itself allows me to switch from the Chromatic Wheel to Palette and save it there, but it's cumbersome to keep switching back between the two modes. Is there any way to have a separate free floating panel of colours which I can easily add new ones to as I go along and then save it? Or a floating "artists palette" to add squiggles of colours?

Slightly separate to this, it's surprising to me that I can't create a panel of colours with with names so that anyone could see what the colours are meant to be for, or can you??

[Fabrice]

It's possible to add a color with a name by right clicking on the empty space of a custom panel. There are several options like "add current tool" but there should be also add current color.
The nice thing is you can also embed it to your current project.
Let me know if you need a screenshot, I just can't do it now, but I can post it later.

[David_Fine]

Ah yes, of course. I can name the colours because really, they are Actions like in other panels. I'm still not seeing how to quickly add a colour to the panel though. I'm sure I must be missing something because it must be simple.

[bluecarrot]

I would also like to be able to have the chromatic wheel open and at the same time have a palette open to quickly drop colors into.

Currently I like this workaround:
open chromatic wheel
create colors and quickly draw patches onto the canvas
this is great to make the colors sing together
once I'm happy with my "palette" I switch from chromatic wheel to palette mode
right click/new palette/from current image
now I count my colors and type that number, otherwise I get more than I want
presto - new palette

now you can save it
or rightclick to create custom panel for naming

[David_Fine]

That is a good suggestion, but once I have that palette and want to add another colour, I have to start all over and create a new palette. It would be nice to be able to quickly drop another colour into that palette. This really can't be done?

[bluecarrot]

I'm not sure what can be done. Have to wait until Monday.
You can add a color to the initially created palette, just as with any other palette by clicking into the palette. But I understand that this is probably not what you want - and I agree.
I want something intuitive and quick. Ideally I would like the chromatic wheel or slider in one panel and then another panel to hold a palette that I could quickly drop colors into. It would be nice to be able to adjust the size of the patches and re-order them by dragging. Getting an option to define preferences for naming would be good - for example some people might like a name field next to the color similar to how layers are named and can be renamed. Others might prefer it the way it is now. It could be customizable.

[David_Fine]

I am able to add a colour to the panel, but it gives me an icon of a white box with a small coloured dot in it instead of a box which has the colour, like the rest of the palette. Kind of important to see the colour properly, but I also agree that the naming as you suggest is important. I am just really surprised that in a program like this, there does not appear to be a way to create and save a panel of colour swatches, with names. So surprising that I fully expected someone here to tell me that I was overlooking some obvious way of doing it. It really can't be done?

The other option is to create a colour model and save it to the library to pick colours of off, but in the library, you can only see it as an icon, so it's hard to pick the colours. Again, am I missing something with how to use a colour model?

[Elodie]

I have a recorded a short video that summarizes the different ways to collect colours in a panel.

http://www.tvpaint.com/forum_attachment ... lettes.mp4" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Hopefully one of these methods will suit your needs.

[Fabrice]

Thanks Elodie, I wanted to do it but couldn't find the time to do do.

[Elodie]

Yeah, I know the struggle, I did it this morning when it was still calm at the office

[Svengali]

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As I thought about David's question (and the current options for color palette buttons...) it occurred to me that adding a few options to the Tool Grabber might be worthwhile:

In addition to grabbing both APen and BPen colors together and automatically creating the "A color dot/B color background" button, a user could create a button that would grab just the APen color or the BPen and make a solid button displaying only that color.

Then I thought, if the user also wanted to be able to NAME the color in the process, why not offer an extended Tool Grabber option that immediately lets him/her insert a name for the new color button?

In fact, if it is possible to include an automated naming option, it might make sense to offer a naming alternative for all the Tool Grabbers???

Sven

[Fabrice]

Sounds doable and smart.
Please post in the feature request.

It would be for the 11.0.4 though, with other color related stuff. The 11.0.3 is about to be released.

[bluecarrot]

I like Svengalis sug.
I just looked at Elodie's video from above in this thread and learned about how we can also edit the grabbed icon to only show the A color. Very cool. I also like the way the Colo layer has the naming option built in. Can we export/save a Colo palette to be used outside the Colo layer?
It would also be nice if we could re-arrange the order of the swatches in both palettes and custom panels and adjust the size of the swatches..

[Fabrice]

Can we export/save a Colo palette to be used outside the Colo layer?

in the next coming 11.0.3.

[bluecarrot]

Thanks!