I had this same issue a few days ago...

You have a few options: There is a color history in the "Standard Colors Dialog" - This is the window that pops up when you click the foreground/background in the toolbox. It's the boxes in the lower right corner... If you don't have the fg/bg enabled in the toolbox you can get to it by File > Preferences > Toolbox > Show Foreground/Background...

Other Options: You could: Use the foreground/background as storage areas, but your limited to only two colors...

You could: Create a palette to use temporarily, and store your colors there...

You could: Create a temporary "color storage layer", and paint small areas that you could pick from with the eye dropper...

It would be nice if the color history was quicker to use... I submitted an idea/request here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=383083 but it ended up being a solution that wasn't in-line with the way the developers are moving... Maybe someone else can offer some other suggestions to improve this functionality...

Hi,

On Sat, 2006-12-09 at 15:38 -0500, Jerry Baker wrote:

It would be nice if the color history was quicker to use... I submitted an idea/request here: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=383083 but it ended up being a solution that wasn't in-line with the way the developers are moving... Maybe someone else can offer some other suggestions to improve this functionality...

What if the color history became another color selector in the Colors tab? It would be equivalent to the triangle, palette and other selectors and live in it's own tab. That would be pretty straight-forward to implement and seems to go well with the concept of color selectors that we have now.

Sven

What if the color history became another color selector in the Colors tab? It would be equivalent to the triangle, palette and other selectors and live in it's own tab. That would be pretty straight-forward to implement and seems to go well with the concept of color selectors that we have now.

I agree.

Just my two cents...

Chris

Chris Mohler wrote:

What if the color history became another color selector in the Colors tab? It would be equivalent to the triangle, palette and other selectors and live in it's own tab. That would be pretty straight-forward to implement and seems to go well with the concept of color selectors that we have now.

I agree.

Just my two cents...

Chris

I agree also... It would be quicker to use, and easier to find...

Hi,

On Sat, 2006-12-09 at 16:22 -0500, jbaker wrote:

I agree also... It would be quicker to use, and easier to find...

Now all we need is a volunteer to move some code around. Anyone interested? Perhaps we should suggest this on the gimp-developer list?

Sven

Hi,

On Mon, 2006-12-11 at 13:37 -0800, Anthony Ettinger wrote:

Thanks, this works fine. Although I thought there was a way to save a color pallete for re-use later.

It would probably not be difficult to add code that creates a color palette from the color-history. If you can think of nice way to integrate that with the color history user interface, you should file this as an enhancement request at bugzilla.gnome.org.

Sven

On 12/9/06, Anthony Ettinger wrote:

I can't figure out how to do this....

when I click the color picker tool, it just sets fg and bg.

How do I save it so I can change color, and then re-use again later?

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create a palette (dialogs -> palettes -> new palette) then when you have your color as an active color you can use "new color from foreground color" button in your palette dialog

On 12/27/06, Jozef Legeny wrote:

On 12/9/06, Anthony Ettinger wrote:

I can't figure out how to do this....

when I click the color picker tool, it just sets fg and bg.

How do I save it so I can change color, and then re-use again later?

-- Anthony Ettinger

create a palette (dialogs -> palettes -> new palette) then when you have your color as an active color you can use "new color from foreground color" button in your palette dialog

No, there is an option in the eyedropper tool options specifically to add the eyedropped color to the palette. Use that, it's much more effective.