It’s quite fast if I can have a large one pop up, which allows for larger hand motions and faster selection. Color wheels in general take up too much screen space, and they’re fiddly if they’re small. So why don’t I use the Artistic Color Selector? For one, I can’t set it to pop up on a hotkey. In the Artistic Color Slider, there is a ton of space for granular control of my most used colors. By comparison there is little to no space for selecting muted colors. As far as I know, this isn’t an option in the Advanced Color Wheel.Ĭheck out the following comparison and notice how saturated the purple is and how much more space is reserved for even more saturated colors in the Advanced Color Slider. This allows a much larger portion of the wheel to be dedicated to greys. For the longest time, I just accepted it and thought there was nothing to be done, but then I opened up the Artistic Color Selector recently and realized you could have an inverted color wheel. The desaturated portion of the wheel is tiny compared to the rest. I find myself rarely using the outer regions while at the same time being tediously careful to control the selection of my desaturated colors. The problem with the current color wheel is that, for me, it has a ton of useless space. Now lets get to the improvements that could be made to help my (and hopefully lots of other peoples) workflow. Ok, I apologize for the long winded explanation, but you literally asked for it in the submission guidelines. I’ve learned more color theory just from using this wheel than I ever did in art school. As I move my value slider, around, the saturation of the entire wheel adjusts to what is available at that value. It’s honest about what saturations are available at a given value. If you paint on your canvas and then desaturate, you find out what you actually have is some kind of mid-value yellow. If you select a full saturation yellow in most programs, then shift your value slider all the way to the brightest selection, you will have a 100% value 100% saturation yellow. What most other programs do is completely lie to you about your values. Value is king, and whether I’m painting in color or not, it’s what I obsess about the entire time. On to value, and why Krita’s color wheel destroys most everyone else’s. I fired up Krita, walked them through what I just explained, and they had a system in place for finding the exact color they needed. Physical paints can be confusing and have all their own gotchas due to chemical pigments. I was teaching a high school art lesson where the students were having trouble learning how to color match (exactly) by mixing acrylic paint. If I need it cooler, I shift it to the nearest cooler color (blue). If my green needs to be warmer, I move it toward the nearest hue that is warmer (yellow). If I want it more saturated, I add more pure green. Just like paint, if I have a color, say green, and I want it more desaturated, I’ll add it’s compliment (slide toward the color directly across from it). I honestly don’t care what hue I’m currently in, or what saturate it is as, unless it’s relative to what’s around it, and this color selector allows me to select a color nearby, bring it up on the wheel and asses if my next color needs to be more saturate or less, and if it needs to lean toward a warmer or cooler hue. For me, this mimics how I learned color with paint, and just makes more sense than most other selectors which have controls separated into HSV or something else.Ĭolor is always relative. I like to use the round wheel with the color model set to HSI (Hue Saturation Intensity). Now, from what I’ve seen online, I have mine set up somewhat different from the norm.
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