Color wheel for photoshop cs6. How to choose a color
3 best color wheel plugins for PS
Color selection and mixing plugins for Photoshop, Illustrator (colorus) and other Adobe programs.
PaintersWheel
The free PrintersWheel plugin is a simple triangle of the color spectrum. Its capabilities are limited, but it is ideal for beginners.
Compatible with Photoshop CS6, CC and more
MagicPicker
The MagicPicker plugin has more functionality than PrinterWheel. Unlike the free plugin, MagicPicker is compatible with Illustratoror and Photoshop from CS3 to CC, which is a great advantage over the free PrintersWheel plugin.
Plugin cost: 19$
P.S. Unfortunately,not available on torrents yetbroken version
Installing plugins:
Installing plugins is very easy! You just need to copy the contents into the folder "../Program Files/Adobe/PhotoshopCS*/Plug-ins/Panels/". Then go to Photoshop and enable the panel through the menu "Window->Extensions"
Happy drawing!
Palette Cooler(Kuler) is an incredibly useful, community-driven color scheme generator that first appeared in Photoshop CS4, and launched as a web application several years before.
If you don't like working with , don't have it on hand, or need some fresh ideas for creating color schemes, you can choose from a large number of themes (as color schemes are called in the app) created by the user community.
To open Kuler palette, select menu command Window - Extensions - Kuler(Windows - Extensions - Kuler)
Note
In order for the palette to download the latest and most popular themes created by the online community of users, you must be connected to the Internet.
Attention!
The Kuler palette does not work on pirated, unlicensed versions of Photoshop. Therefore, if you have an empty palette window open, then nothing can be fixed. Works only in the licensed version of the product.
Kuler palette interface
Explanation of footnotes:
Item 1 - Search query input field.
Item 2 - Drop-down filter lists.
Point 3 - Topics.
Item 4 - Button View previous set of topics (Previous).
Item 5 - Button View the next set of topics (Next).
Item 6 - Update topics in the Kuler community (Refresh) button.
Step 7 - Edit theme button in the creation panel (Edit themes).
Step 8 - Button Add selected theme to Swatches.
Step 9 - Select the base color by dragging the circle with the mouse up/down or towards/from the center of the circle.
Item 10 - Brightness slider.
Item 11 - From left to right:
- Add foreground color as base button.
- Button Add current background color as base (Add background color as base).
- Button Change other theme colors according to the laws of harmony (Apply harmony).
- Button Add a new color to the theme (Add color).
- Button Delete this color from the theme (Delete color).
Step 12 – Upload Color Theme to Kuler Website Button (Upload)
How to use the palette
There are three buttons at the top of the palette:
Intelligence(About). If you want to learn about the online community or become a member, this tab will take you to the app's website. After registering for free, you will be able to upload themes you create to the website, rate other users' themes, write on forums, and so on.
Review(Browse). If you want to view themes created by other users, you can search for them by entering keywords (cool, sunny, romantic, pastel, etc.), creator's name, theme name, or hexadecimal value in the search query input field. Or, alternatively, browse the list of topics using the scroll bar. Drop-down lists at the top of the palette allow you to sort topics by rating, time on the website, and so on.
To use a specific theme, that is, import its colors into Photoshop, select it, then click on the button Add the selected scheme to the samples(Add selected theme to Swatches) - point 8.
You can also click on the small triangle that appears to the right of the scheme when you select it, and select Add to Swatches Panel from the context menu.
Create(Create). Click this button to open a tab that allows you to create your own themes.
First select from the drop down list Rule(Color Ruler) color scheme: you can create other schemes. Then drag the white ringed circle on the color wheel with your mouse until it becomes the color you want to base your theme on (in other words, your main color). You will see lines that go from the main color to other colors according to the rule you chose. Other colors will also move when you move the main one.
You can drag the white circle of the main color with your mouse towards the center or away from the center of the circle, left or right, up or down, until you find the color you want.
The middle swatch in the row of square swatches below the color wheel will show the main color. When you find the one you want, you can change its brightness value - step 10, higher to lighten it, or lower to darken it.
To change a different theme color, select it by clicking on its swatch below the color wheel. You will see that the corresponding circle on the color wheel will be highlighted with a white ring. Once a circle is selected, you can change its color by dragging it to another point on the circle, or change its brightness by moving the slider.
Once you've found the theme colors you're happy with, click the button Save topic(Save Theme) in the lower left corner of the palette to save the theme, and then click on the button to the right to add the colors of this theme to palette Swatches.
If you notice an error in the text, select it and press Ctrl + Enter. Thank you!
In Photoshop CC 2014, we can resize this panel to suit our needs. To make the panel wider, move the mouse cursor over its left edge, and the cursor will take the form of a double-edged black arrow. Press the left mouse button and drag the cursor to resize. Note that this changes the entire column, not just the panel itself, so all other panels in the column will become wider:
In addition, in the same way we can change the height of the panel if we move the cursor to its bottom edge.
If you want to resize the Color panel without changing the size of other panels in a column, simply drag it out of the column:
Now that the panel is undocked, we can resize only that panel. Just drag any of the bottom corners:
Note. On Windows computers, the Color panel appears in Hue Cube mode by default. On computers running Mac OS, the panel is displayed in RGB Sliders mode.
As I wrote above, the “Color” panel has two main color selection modes - the “Hue Cube” and the “Brightness Cube”, in addition to this there are others. It is the presence of many modes that makes the updated panel is so meaningful and useful, and the Color panel has become much more convenient to use than the traditional Color Picker.
Switch modes by clicking on the icon in the upper right corner and selecting from the list:
These modes work exactly the same as in the Color Picker.