Color Wheel

[timteamouse]

I posted a free color wheel to help you create color scheme in Photoshop Elements,
along with 240 + color schemes to get your started at my home page.
With this color wheel you can create your own colored harmony swatches right in Elements.
I also included a pdf file with instructions on how to work the color wheel.

I'm looking for comments on this subject, good or bad, I'm open to all ideals here.

http://www.angelfire.com/pe2/teamouse/index.html

[Wendy]

Thanks Tim,

I have been looking for something like this ... so its very useful to me :)


Wendy

[timteamouse]

I plain on using it myself to better my work with picture frames, scrapbooking, and recolorizing clip art and black and white images.

So far I have no complaints about the way it works. I might get a few on
the color selecting, because of the limit of colors used, I'm thinking
maybe there a way to improve this problem, by create not 24
colors and 10% stepping zone to 48 colors and 20 stepping zone, which would
produce 1,920 possible colors, giving more options. But on the same term
create a little bigger file. Hummm...

I'll have to see if this works for me.

By chance did you look at some of Swatches Wendy?

[Patricia Heere]

Hi Tim.

I downloaded the files. They are really nice. Thank you. The color wheel is exactly what I need to choose colors. My only problem is that I cannot get the wheel to turn. I downloaded the swatches into the swatches folder and they come up just fine. I loaded the wheel into elements as a picture graphic that I can pull up in the editor. I open the wheel and go into edit. It comes up fine. I can darken, lighten and choose a wheel but I cannot turn it per your instructions. The corners are at the edge of the document and I cannot get the mouse to move them. I cannot see any toggles on the wheel itself. Am I missing something? I sometimes have trouble fully comprehending some instructions so maybe I just don't see what I am supposed to.

Thank you for any help you can give me.

Pat

[timteamouse]

On the second page of the instruction, look at my example, the selected layer I unhide and have it selected to work with, see the layer in the layer palette I want to work with, it's Blue. You can unhide a layer and have not selected to work with in photoshop Elements.

[Patricia Heere]

Thanks for responding Tim.

I got it to work. I had to reboot my computer but then it seemed to be OK. The whole thing you did is quite ingenious. It is awesome and perfect for choosing color schemes that work. Thank you again.

Pat

[timteamouse]

All of the swatches are free download for another program,
I just converted them to photoshop, i did a few, but most of
them I didn't create them.

I thought it would be nice to include them with the color wheel since
they where free and un copy righted to share with others.

[Wendy]

Tim,

I posted this is another thread but I think its better posted here:

I have now had a chance to play with your Colour Wheel and must say that it is really good ... it didn't take me long to get the hang of using it and I just love it !!! It works perfectly ... and the swatches you have included are excellent too.

Thanks Tim for sharing this with us ... well done!!

Wendy

[Patricia Heere]

Yes Tim,
greatly appreciated. I haven't had much time to play around with my computer programs lately but I did put them into the program. Will those by any chance work in PS? I have access to an older version.

Pat

[Wendy]

Pat ...

They do workfine in Photoshop :)


Wendy

[Patricia Heere]

Yeah, thanks Wendy. I tried them there too. Hopefully later this month or into next my schedule will slow down enough for me to devote some uninterripted time for me.

Pat

[mayva]

My only comment Tim.....is....great job and thanks for sharing with us...:)


Anna