#41

Every time I have to use it I end up howling FUCK OFFFFFFFFFFFFFFF at the screen and having to go for a walk.

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#42

This is also my life.

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#43

Why does everything have hyphenation turned on as default? Surely nobody ever wants hyphenation?

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#44

See?

:’(

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#45

Wondered this when I saw Dreamweaver listed but didn’t want to ask, heh.

#46

Meant vector before the sneery correctors jump in.

#47

@_Em (or anyone else) – is there any way of changing the colour picker in Illustrator so that it’s more like the standard one with the whole colour chart in it? I want to drag to easily make a lighter shade of the current colour, rather than have the slightest clue about colour theory.

Thanks.

#48

Mine looks like this- the same as the Photoshop one. There’s also a mini one with all the colours on the same graphic under window->colour (it also has a tab called colour guide that suggests colour schemes, but I never use it)

Also rather than make a palette file, I just tend to put some squares of the colours I’ve chosen outside the artboard. So I can just use the dropper to pick them up each time.

#49

Huh. That’s exactly what I want. I’ll have a play to see if I can get it.

Thanks.

#50

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That’s mine.

#51

Ah all you need to do is select H mode.

These are what the letters are.
Hue
Saturation
Brightness
Red
Green
Blue
Cyan
Magenta
Yellow
Key (aka black)
Web colour code

Also if you get an exclamation mark next to the colour you picked, that means it doesn’t print well in CMYK. If you click on the colour it will auto select something that will print better. CMYK can be a bit shit with bright greens and reds though, so you are often better off choosing a different shade of those colours rather than the dimmer version the auto thing gives you.

#52

Well butter my arse, that was easy. Obviously I knew RGB and CMYK, never knew the top ones.

Only been a designer for 15 years…

Thanks.

#53

Yeah I pretty much always use it on H. The R/G/B graphics can be nice for picking colour schemes though.

#54

Other Adobe gripe. Every time I open up Photoshop after having restarted the computer it opens up a restored file from something I did two years ago. I never need to work on this thing ever again, and it was a massive pain in the arse to do at the time, and involved a lot of dealing with annoying people who changed their mind a lot. Every time this stupid file comes up it mildly annoys me.

#55

Speaking of colour schemes, have you used this?

http://sipapp.io/

Basically it keeps little ‘always available’ palettes at the side of your desktop, and you can just click the colours into your apps.

I use it all the time now, it’s brilliant. Especially when working with corporate/brand colours you’re using all the time. Not sure if it’s available for PC (if that’s what you’re using) unfortunately.

#56

I had a problem the other day working in some massive file that had clearly become corrupted or something, and kept crashing Photoshop. But every time I reloaded Photoshop, it loaded this same file.

I lost a large part of my soul that day.

#57

No I’m on Mac. That looks really cool, I’ll try it out. I’ve got the Adobe phone app that lets you turn photos into colour palettes, which is useful sometimes.

I try my best to avoid work with strict style sheets these days. I used to work doing catalogues :frowning:

(Even worse I worked at an art supply merchants and used to make colour charts of photographed paint, pastel etc samples. Hundreds of pages of the things. I’d see coloured squares floating in front of my eyes constantly)

#58

No idea why I read all of this thread.

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#59

Do you feel like you learnt anything?

#60

To give up on any halfhearted ideas of getting into graphic design.