CoolPicker for 3ds max

Eric Chadwick · Sep 2005

I've been playing with this cool plugin for 3ds max called CoolPicker. It replaces the standard sucky color palette with some nice color tools, so I thought it'd be nice to share.

Here are some screenies...

In the MIXER pane, left-click paints with the current color, right-click smears painted colors together, and middle-click eyedrops the colors. Very useful for mixing, a nice digital equivalent to a traditional painter's palette.

Wish I had something like this for Photoshop.

Vark · Sep 2005

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In the MIXER pane, left-click paints with the current color, right-click smears painted colors together, and middle-click eyedrops the colors. Very useful for mixing, a nice digital equivalent to a traditional painter's palette.

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Yea, they have a mixer exactly like that in Paint Shop Pro. It's awsome.

JordanW · Sep 2005

that's a cool picker, i wish there was one like that for photoshop, I really dont like theirs...

Eric Chadwick · Sep 2005

I mean, I could (and have) used a separate PSD to mix colors in, using the Smudge tool and eyedropping from it. But I really wish I had the wheel/tri and the wealth of sliders, especially the one above the Cancel button. So much better.

I emailed the CoolPicker author, asked if he's willing to port it... we'll see.

Delaney King · Sep 2005

Ive been hassling them to put that in for a while now...
I got an addition for you... a slot to drop in the hex color code so you can copy / paste values from photoshop!

PaK · Sep 2005

This is fabulous, thx eric!

Eric Chadwick · Sep 2005

Dave, fire him an email. I asked him about porting it to PS, and he definitely seemed interested.

I really like the triangle picker, very quick.

CoolPicker for 3ds max

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