RE: Decimal precision in Photoshop's info palette
RE: Decimal precision in Photoshop's info palette
- Subject: RE: Decimal precision in Photoshop's info palette
- From: "CS Carl Stawicki (4211)" <email@hidden>
- Date: Thu, 18 May 2006 14:16:10 -0400
- Thread-topic: Decimal precision in Photoshop's info palette
Title: RE: Decimal precision in Photoshop's info palette
"I guess there ought to be some preferences for the level of geekness
or precision in the interface to suit the needs of different kinds of users."
That's _exactly_ what I've suggested to Adobe in their Photoshop forum. An odd thing is that they allow us to type decimal places in the layer opacity and fill settings, but not in the color pickers, so the UI is inconsistent (I'm on CS at the moment, so maybe it's deferent in CS2).
Until then, at least we can work with 256 precision in curves by flipping the orientation of the curve. The dialog won't show ink %'s that way, so it's less intuitive, but it's possible.
Carl Stawicki
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From: Roger Breton
Sent: Thursday, May 18, 2006 1:40 PM
To: CS Carl Stawicki (4211); ColorSync
Subject: Re: Decimal precision in Photoshop's info palette
> My take is the app does operate at a higher precision, and the numbers are
> just rounded for the UI. The Info Palette and color mixers are frustrating
> because of that. What I found out though, is that you can get ink values (and
> L* values also) to the 1/100 of a percent with an AppleScript (and I'm
> assuming _javascript_). Copy this line and paste it into Script Editor:
>
> tell application "Adobe Photoshop CS" to get the foreground color
>
> In Photoshop, sample a color from a CMYK or grayscale image to the foreground
> and run the script. The result will look like this:
>
> {class:CMYK color, cyan:14.9, magenta:89.02, yellow:64.71, black:22.35}
>
> You can also set the foreground or background colors to specific values:
>
> tell application "Adobe Photoshop CS" to set the foreground color to
> {class:CMYK color, cyan:14.9, magenta:89.02, yellow:64.71, black:22.35}
>
>
> I've been using simple scripts like that to analyze or mix color if it's
> critical enough to do so.
>
> Carl Stawicki
Thank you Carl. This is wunderbar. It shows that the user is shielded from a
lot of stuff going on behind the scene in Photoshop. With your comment in
mind, I guess there ought to be some preferences for the level of geekness
or precision in the interface to suit the needs of different kinds of users.
So the absolute beginner or casual user would continue to see the present
interface whereas people like you and me (and a host of other advanced
users, I suspect) could have access to Lch and decimal precision in the Info
palette. Fantastic. When can I upgrade?
Roger Breton | Laval, Canada | email@hidden
http://pages.infinit.net/graxx
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