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logicallysynced / Chroma-Palette-for-Photoshop

Chroma Palette is a companion app/plugin for Adobe Photoshop which allows you to create, store and recall colors using your devices Numpad or Keypad.
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Using the 'Learn' button- Saving colors from PS to the keypad (and retrieving them too) #3

Open GunvirMahajan opened 6 years ago

GunvirMahajan commented 6 years ago

I just bought an Orbweaver Chroma to use this App.

I have everything set up- Razer profile that came along, in place, using PS CS5. However, I cannot seem to figure out how to retrieve and save colors from the Orbweaver to my PS document. I can flip through the palette 'pages' alright, but how do I get that color onto my PS active color selection, and likewise- how do I save a color from my PS file onto a specific button? The button assigned to 'Numpad *' on my Orbweaver doesn't seem to do anything.

Would really appreciate any help/documentation on this.

GunvirMahajan commented 6 years ago

(Somewhat unrelated, something I just noticed- Chroma Palette launches 32 bit Photoshop and not the 64 bit one for some reason). Launching Ps in 64 bit doesn't help either.

I don't quite know what I'm doing incorrectly, but how do I get the displayed color on the keypad key onto my PS color selection! (and from Ps to my keypad)

logicallysynced commented 6 years ago

Alright so I haven't really looked at this program in a while and I just opened it back up with my Orbweaver and Photoshop CC 2017 to see what's going on and it still works, although I admit it's a bit buggy. I'll look into releasing a bunch of bug fixes soon though.

I'm not sure if your issues are related to using Photoshop CS5 (don't have it so can't test), but in theory it should still work. A few things to check:

  1. Loading the included profile should do this for you, but check that the top two rows of the orbweaver are mapped to Num0 through Num9 and the third and fourth rows are mapped to 0 through 9.

  2. Make sure your keyboard Num lock is on.

  3. In Chroma Palette settings, make sure the following settings are set:

Enable Keyboard: Unchecked Enable Numbers: Checked (this disabled numbers 1-9 on your keyboard by the way) Enable Keypad: Checked Toggle Hotkey Highlights: Unchecked

  1. Make sure a photoshop document is open and use * to toggle between foreground and background palettes within photoshop.

Then use the * key on your Numpad to toggle between the foreground and background colour selector in Photoshop.

The capture key will take the colour from the selected palette (foreground or background) and map it to that button on the orbweaver. There are some bugs still so the colours don't always display on the orbweaver correctly, but they should still recall when you push them. The recall will place the colour back onto the selected palette.

Like I said I will look into fixing some of these bugs as soon as I can.

GunvirMahajan commented 6 years ago

I'm using Windows 7.

I downloaded a trial version of Photoshop CC. It didn't seem to work either. I had unchecked Toggle Hotkey Highlights, which was previously on.

I go ahead and uninstall CC and Ps CC, and the weirdest thing happens- now Chroma Palette wouldn't run (the process runs in the Task Manager, but no window pops up/nothing in the system tray).

Running as Admin does the same thing- in addition, the process stops working and kills itself after a few moments. I tried the obvious- rebooting several times and whatnot.

[Edit- The process dies on its own either way, after some time]

I have no clue what happened.

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Appreciate the reply though- I hope the update fixes things.

I look forward to using this.