[Gimp-developer] Fwd: [Gimp-user] Color selectors, which one do you use?

[David Gowers]

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From: David Gowers <00ai99 at gmail.com>
Date: Dec 6, 2006 3:08 PM
Subject: Re: [Gimp-user] Color selectors, which one do you use?
To: Sven Neumann <sven at gimp.org>



On 12/6/06, Sven Neumann <sven at gimp.org> wrote:
>
> Hi,
>
> time for another little poll. GIMP has an interface for pluggable color
> selector modules. Over the time we have collected quite a few of them.
> In the 2.3 tree we have the following modules and builtin color
> selectors:
>
> Default color selector
> CMYK color selector
> Painter-style triangle color selector
> Watercolor style color selector
> Palette color selector
>
> This is IMO too much choice for most users and I think it would help if
> we would disable some of them. Expert users would still be able to
> reenable them in the Module Manager. Perhaps we could even have a menu
> somewhere in the Colors tab that allows to enable/disable color
> selectors.
>
> Now the question is, which color selectors do you actually use? I have
> myself never found the Watercolor selector to be useful. But your
> mileage might vary. Tell me about it.
>
>
> Sven


I agree. The watercolor selector is less intuitive to me than the other
selectors. Except CMYK.
CMYK I find most unintuitive.
Slides is nice but the slowest. Triangle is pretty effective, slightly slow
- I'd like to see it make standard hue offsetting (90, 120, 180 degrees)
easier.
The default selector is both fast and intuitive; its only downfall is that
it doesn't present the HSV/RGB numbers.
The palette selector is fast, and it's useful for transferring colors
between palettes, in conjunction with the 'Edit active palette' option.

If I had to pick 3, I would choose default, palette, and slides. I use
slides the most, and appreciate the way the palette color selector allows
you to view and select from the current palette without the need for an
additional tab or dockable.
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