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| | | Author: | wyvern  | | Posted: | Feb 25, 2021 20:17 | | Subject: | How are catalog colors made? | | Viewed: | 75 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | | Status: | Open | | Vote: | [Yes|No] | |
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| What's the process for color selection when making the little "swatch" next
to every color in the catalog? My guess is taking a picture of a part and eyedropping
the color in Photoshop. For the less straightforward colors like trans, chrome,
speckled, etc. how do you decide what's the best representation of them as
one solid color?
Going along with that, I think it would be cool if those special colors had more
unique swatches. For example, glitter's look like regular colors, so I think
there should be little shiny dots to separate it from the solid colors. Speckled
should be speckled with their respective colors. Obviously it would be a ridiculous
priority for admins, but it would be a nice detail maybe someday.
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| | | | | Author: | Admin_Russell | | Posted: | Feb 25, 2021 21:18 | | Subject: | Re: How are catalog colors made? | | Viewed: | 45 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Catalog, ybtfbiwgw writes:
| | What's the process for color selection when making the little "swatch" next
to every color in the catalog? My guess is taking a picture of a part and eyedropping
the color in Photoshop. For the less straightforward colors like trans, chrome,
speckled, etc. how do you decide what's the best representation of them as
one solid color?
Going along with that, I think it would be cool if those special colors had more
unique swatches. For example, glitter's look like regular colors, so I think
there should be little shiny dots to separate it from the solid colors. Speckled
should be speckled with their respective colors. Obviously it would be a ridiculous
priority for admins, but it would be a nice detail maybe someday.
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We just enter an RGB code - that's it. And most of these have been there
for about 15 years. We make manual adjustments in cases where the swatches could
be misleading.
This is something we could consider. I'll change this thread to a suggestion
so we don't lose it.
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| | | | | Author: | Stellar | | Posted: | Feb 26, 2021 04:43 | | Subject: | Re: How are catalog colors made? | | Viewed: | 42 times | | Topic: | Suggestions | |
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| In Suggestions, ybtfbiwgw writes:
| | What's the process for color selection when making the little "swatch" next
to every color in the catalog? My guess is taking a picture of a part and eyedropping
the color in Photoshop. For the less straightforward colors like trans, chrome,
speckled, etc. how do you decide what's the best representation of them as
one solid color?
Going along with that, I think it would be cool if those special colors had more
unique swatches. For example, glitter's look like regular colors, so I think
there should be little shiny dots to separate it from the solid colors. Speckled
should be speckled with their respective colors. Obviously it would be a ridiculous
priority for admins, but it would be a nice detail maybe someday.
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Here you can check different values to generate the colors:
http://ryanhowerter.net/colors.php
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