Help Me Help Myself

June 27, 2005 7:22 AM

I'm having problem with Adobe InDesign CS2! Any experts out there?

Is there a way to change the color picker setup in Adobe InDesign CS? I'm used to Illustrator and Photoshop's picker where you can chose various values and tones (of increased black or white) of the color and use the side slider to choose the range. Hope this question makes sense because I'm damn frustrated!

posted by mrs.pants to computers & internet (7 comments total)

Well, I can’t see any easy way to use another color picker, but IF there is one, these folks will know about it, or will be able to explain why not; best place I know of to throw up ID questions.
posted by dpcoffin at 8:46 AM on June 27, 2005

Sorry, dunno why that link isn’t working: try this:
http://www.listsearch.com/indesigntalk.lasso
posted by dpcoffin at 8:52 AM on June 27, 2005

The color picker you want is there, it's just not in the "Color" or "Swatches" palette where youe xpect to find it.

Make sure the "Tools" palette is showing (the one with the arrow and text and object tools, usually on the left side of the screen), then double-click either the foreground or background color. There you go - Adobe's color picker.
posted by mdeatherage at 10:00 AM on June 27, 2005

I'm trying to switch from the one on the left to the one on the right. Doubleclicking the foreground or background colors did not work for me.

posted by mrs.pants at 10:12 AM on June 27, 2005

I have to say that I'm still on CS1. But knowing the way that the Photoshop color picker works, I strongly suspect you will get the setup you want if you click the radio button next to the H, like it is on the Photoshop screenshot, instead of the radio button next to the R which is selected in your InDesign screenshot.

It doesn't help that Adobe has switched around where HSB and RGB are in these Color Pickers for seemingly no reason.
posted by grouse at 10:45 AM on June 27, 2005

In my version of CS2 there is no radio button marked H, I may be screwed here eh?
posted by mrs.pants at 11:08 AM on June 27, 2005

Oh, is that Lab and not HSB? Sorry, it's hard to see in that screenshot.

The point is that the slider corresponds to whichever radio button you have selected and you want it selected on hue, whereas you have it on red. This doesn't mean that's impossible to have the slider select hue, it just means I don't know how to do it. Maybe someone else will know here or on InDesignTalk.
posted by grouse at 11:46 AM on June 27, 2005