Using Adobe Configurator with Photoshop

[Oliver_H...@adobeforums.com]

A magnificent tool that *at last* allows one to customise the toolbox. However, a question:

I can find no way to put foreground / background colour onto my personalised toolbox replacement.

Does anyone know how to do this, or what script will produce the same result?

[John Joslin]

Thanks for pointing out that it's available, I'd missed that.

It's a cool tool but I can't answer your question yet. :)

[John Joslin]

At last, the customisable toolbar we've all been waiting for since CS1!

[Myle...@adobeforums.com]

You can't change these things with configurator only. It is merely a tool that latches on to the DOM and command reflections of PS itself, without introducing any new UI components. If you want custom colors and such, you will have to dig into Flex/ Flash and do some real coding.

Mylenium

[John Joslin]

Well personally I don't care about pretty colours if the thing works. Which it does!

[Free...@adobeforums.com]

Some commands aren't available directly in the Configurator. For instance, you cannot set foreground/background color, nor switch between quick mask/normal.

Anyway, that's how it looks after an hour of playing around with this delightful new toy...

However, you can import actions, so you can record one-step actions for those. I just tried it with quick mask and back, and that works just as if you click on the toolbar icon.

[Free...@adobeforums.com]

Update: it doesn't seem to work with "conditional" actions such as foreground / background colors - because you can't close the action before you've actually chosen a color. So it only works for setting a specific color.

So that's something for Configurator 2.0. Anyone else know of a way to do it? A script?

[Anastasi...@adobeforums.com]

Hi!

Maybe this one can help ya. I made myself with friends a photoshop panel for picking colors - changing foreground color. As an artist I always wanted a panel like this and new CS4 capabilities in building custom panels are amazing! And as a Flex programmer I made a simple color picker as a panel.

You can try it here: <http://anastasiy.com/colorpicker.zip>
Screenshot is here: <http://anastasiy.com/colorpicker.jpg> (when I said simple - I really meant it).

Create folder 'Colorpicker' in Photoshop's Plug-ins/Panels folder then unzip colorpicker.zip contents into it. The panel will be available in Window|Extentions|Colorpicker after PS restart.

For me it's a life savior.

NOTE: There is a bug, when you open this Panel, then choose a color with standard Photoshop color picker and the color is not being changed in Panel. I don't know how to fix it :( Adobe gave a tutorial that does not work. (If someone is listening from Adobe, please mention, that your Flex/PS CS4/SDK tutorials are not working and crash photoshop.)