Palettator, a floating panel for palettes, for Photoshop CC+

kritskiy

Hey guys,
So I had this one-day-project: I wanted to make myself a Photoshop panel where I can keep palette or reference and so I could hide and show it with hotkey and also so it'd be visible in fullscreen. I made a base in one day and then for a month I was putting the finishing touches
But anyway, behold!


Not much to add actually. Simple as that.
Here's a preview video
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pE9r7zfr-Gw

It's available for free on my Gumroad https://gumroad.com/kritskiy
or Cubebrush https://cubebrush.co/kritskiy
Cheers,
S.

LaurentiuN

Awesome man, thank you :>

pior

Ha, that's looking great ! Any chance for a CS5 version, even with basic functionality ?

kritskiy

Hey pior, unfortunately no. CS6 and below use completely different panel engine, it would be mu-u-uch more difficult :<

RN

If you don't paint fullscreen on CS6 and below you can use a tiny document as a mixer:
http://polycount.com/discussion/161936/a-simple-photoshop-scratchpad-mixer

That only works because when you hold Alt for picking Photoshop lets you pick colours accross document windows.

EDIT: Forgot to say, thanks for this extension!

kritskiy

RN, it's actually after reading your post a month ago I decided to make this extension! I realised that quite frequently I need to have this small image floating around, but I'm on Mac, and Photoshop on Mac doesnt let you to have inactive window on top of active! So I had to get myself out with extensions  So thank you too! 

RN

Ah, you're right, I did only test that on Windows. I'll edit that thread. Thanks.

xblastradiusx

Cool and very useful. Any tips on making these types of plugins for photoshop? I'm pretty sure java comes into play.

kritskiy

Thanks! It's actually javascript + html on the front (UI) and JSX (javascript extended with Photoshop functions) on the back.
I guess you can start from here and here. Documentation is lacking, but Davide (the second link) wrote a book on PS Extensions, if you want to dive into extensions I'd recommend to buy it.

pior

Heya @kritskiy - no worries, I totally understand.

(one of the reasons why I stick to CS5 is because on top of its speed it seems to be the last version to support Configurator and that's just too handy to pass on )

kritskiy

Pior, actually the first release of CC (2013) supports both Flash extensions (made in Configurator) and HTML (new ones).

TooLzor

xblastradiusx said:

Cool and very useful. Any tips on making these types of plugins for photoshop? I'm pretty sure java comes into play.

For tips...prepare to see a lot of really shitty code if you have to use anything built into PS cause Adobe is lazy as hell with their PS "shit-PI"

kritskiy

I guess a general advice will be 'avoid if possible'

pior

@kritskiy - Ha, that's interesting ! It's a bummer that they ended up dropping it in the end, it's a nice little tool and easy to use too. Oh well !

TooLzor

kritskiy said:

I guess a general advice will be 'avoid if possible'

Yeah that's kinda what I say..it's kind of a "niche" of shit

werewolf0x

You had written that your products (this and perspective tool) must work with CC+, but what about CC 2017? Some say they have had problems with installing plugins and expansions in CC 2017... Sorry, if the question seemed stupid, but I want to be sure that everything will work  

kritskiy

werewolf0x said:

You had written that your products (this and perspective tool) must work with CC+, but what about CC 2017? Some say they have had problems with installing plugins and expansions in CC 2017... Sorry, if the question seemed stupid, but I want to be sure that everything will work  

Yep, all my extensions work also in CC2017 (I guess it's because the number of changes for artists was very little lol)

Installation is slightly different. Since there's no official way to install extensions for CC2015-CC2017, you have to rely on 3rd party installers. They work in 99% cases, but sometimes, in specific situations (the most common is non-legal Photoshop, but not necessary) they don't work, in this case you have to spend 5 minutes on manual file copying. It's nothing dreadful/difficult plus usually you don't have to reinstall/update extensions often... but still I wish Adobe would introduce a new Extension Manager to solve this.