Tedious, but possible, if you need to do it for some reason. (Yes, do make a backup before you start this.) Then I'd do the whole renaming bit, removing the misplaced copies of the colors as I went, and hoping that I didn't accidentally delete any that I hadn't copied yet. In the illustration, since I want Deep Yellow to come after Pale Yellow, and then Peach, and finally Sugar Pink, I would first move Peach to the bottom, and then Sugar Pink, so it would come below Peach. (Command V) You have now moved a color to the bottom of the list, which is the only place you can move it.Ĭontinue, until they are in the order you desire. ( - button)You can't have two colors with the same name in the list.įinally, double click on the color that should have that name, and Paste it into the field. ( Command C) Once you have done this, remove that named color. Then, double click on the name of the original color, and Copy it to your clipboard. If you do, please write and tell me how!) (No, there's no way to insert it anywhere else or if there is, I don't know it. It will be added, with the default name, to the bottom. To copy colors to the bottom of the list, select the color you want to move, and drag it away from where it started, releasing it while still over the list window. Which means that you really need to plan it out first, because you don't want to be doing very much of this. However, that doesn't mean it can't be done it's just not elegant or simple. Sadly, it seems at this point that there's no easy way to arrange the order of colors in the list. Which is a shame, since in my opinion it's fantastic. If you are one of those, there's help for you in the form of a little app that will just open the picker at the end of the tutorial.Īll in all, this color picker is a very slick and extraordinarily useful tool but it seems a lot of people don't really know how to use it, because there's not any documentation to speak of. ![]() Still, there are some people who have a hard time getting it to show up at all. Others have some kind of key combination that lets you access it. Since it's the default System Color picker in most applications, like Mail or TextEdit, it's what pops up when you call for a different color.įor some, like Adobe ® Photoshop ®, you have to specify that you want to use the System Color Picker in the Prefs for the program. This tutorial has been updated to show the Color Picker in Mac OS 10.5.7 but if you are using a different version, I'm sure that you'll be able to figure out where things are in yours. OS X on the Mac introduced an amazingly powerful Color Picker, and it's only improved since then. Unless you did that to print, the page is more fun if you turn it on.
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