Custom picker utility

[Dany51]

Oo why didn't I think of that! The text file was just for entering a number of colors,and creating an empty template. But it could certainly have hex values and create a full picker, I'll look into it if you like. Might be useful for copying colors from web tools or something like that..
As for the .col files that didn't work, maybe they're artrage2 .col files, and they're different than AR3 in some way, or I just didn't understand the col file format very well. After all I just opened some in a hex editor and saw where all the values were.
Could you attach them?

@azathothgr : a full picker, good idea if you have time for it !

about the .col files who didn't work ,
you have two executables, picker_sort and picker_unsort,

when I begin I tried the unsort and didn't work with any color files that I tried, then I tried the other one and it worked with all the files excepted two or three,
now, as I want to be sure of it, I tried again the two files and the file that didn't work with the picker_sort worked with the other one .

I have many .col files and the most of them are from AR2.5, is not a problem with that.

I upload here the "hues" .col files which give me problems but I get the picker and finally there are no problem but perhaps this can help you to understand better what is all about and eventually explain to me,
I didn't programming from the '70, it may give you an idea how far I am from it
Thanks again for all this !!

[Dany51]

Hi Rowena,
no doubt azathothgr can give a more complete answer
but the simple one is :

unzip the .rar file in a folder and you have in there two executable
(read my precedent post about it),
call the folder custompicker,

I have it in my Colors folder in Art Rage folder

all you have to do is to find all (or what you want to have as pickers)
your .col collection from the Resources folder and bring them in that folder,
then one by one drop them on the executable,
you will see the pickers show up one by one,
then bring back the .col files to their place and the pickers to the pickers folder.

Hope this will help !

[Rowena]

Hi Dany,

Thanks for the answer and for trying to help... maybe I am just thick, but I am just a humble artist and not a programmer.

So I am trying to unzip the file as directed... but first it seems I must first win zip the file? I did that and found it was pre named just like you said - so now I extract from the winzip - but nothing! no executable files, just a win zip bundle is added to my collection. i now have 1 .rar fille and 1 PNG image, and the whole thing in a win zip bundle.

Nothing makes sense

[Dany51]

I don't understand what you mean by "win zip" the file, do you work on a Mac ?
I said "unzip" the file, you have to have a compression software
which can handle the .rar files ,
I just installed Astrotite for that , is free , you can download it here
or you can make the choice of another program
from the compression rubric, just check that can handle the .rar files.

Hope that can help

[pkasco]

Hi Rowena,
no doubt azathothgr can give a more complete answer
but the simple one is :

unzip the .rar file in a folder and you have in there two executable
(read my precedent post about it),
call the folder custompicker,

I have it in my Colors folder in Art Rage folder

all you have to do is to find all (or what you want to have as pickers)
your .col collection from the Resources folder and bring them in that folder,
then one by one drop them on the executable,
you will see the pickers show up one by one,
then bring back the .col files to their place and the pickers to the pickers folder.

Hope this will help !

Hi Danny,

Long time since you last posted this. As others have said, I'm not a programmer either. I've tried to do as you mentioned and it simply does not work. When you say "drop them on the executable" are you saying drag and drop on the executable file?

I suspect there is something to do with "python," which I have no clue what that is. If I simply run the executable file I get an error saying "this application has failed to start because python26.dll was not found. re-installing the application may fix this problem." In my case, re-installing does not, in fact, solve the problem.

All I'm really looking to do is create a picker with a standard set of colors that I always paint with in real life. That's it.

Sorry for being a dummy and thanks!

[kaiko]

... All I'm really looking to do is create a picker with a standard set of colors that I always paint with in real life. That's it....

Hi Pkasco,
I was just facing that situation of yours, to create a picker with a standard set of colours that I will be using in real life. And I was wondering if you manage to succeed with this?

I am starting plein air paintings and have decided to give a try to the Scott Christensen´s limit palette, and would really love to have it on ArtRage. But I don't understand how to do that (is not to pick a red colour, for example, but to pick a "bright red" from Windsor&Newton specific colour, and so on.

The "Custom picker utility" (on page http://www2.ambientdesign.com/forums...picker-utility) doesn't work, I mean I am not able to download it (uses firefox and Explorer), and Sammy (http://www2.ambientdesign.com/forums...l-Oils-Palette) made a palette that has real pigments for oil artists and I would like to convert it to a colour picker.

Well, hope you are still around.

Thank you for any tip.

[pinkpanther]

Thank you very much for this..
i have tried that on some .col files ..i have not created them..art supplies..just made these color pickers..total 24 of them..

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