Tried that Charles but still not working. Thanks for the advice though.

Are you running the Windows version (which is the version I'm running)?

To confirm, you're creating a shape, then pressing enter (to get around the new "feature" adobe have kindly created where you have an ugly selection box around a shape with a border selected so you cant easily see your border colour - thanks Adobe, not!), and you're then going to the top properties box labelled "Stroke:", (Not the one in the Layers panel)? You're then opening the drop down box, selecting the color picker icon (The far right box at the top of that panel thats multi coloured, which brings up a color picker dialogue box? You're then moving the colour picker dialogue box to one side so you can see he shape created, and you've then tried clicking on different colours and the border color has changed after each click (but before you press OK)?

If thats working so the color changes in real time for you, then unfortunatley I've got a problem with my version.

charles badland wrote:

 

I'm on Mac..

You're then moving the colour picker dialogue box to one side so you can see he shape created,

OK. Misread. You are choosing from the Adobe Color Picker (not a preset color from stroke drop-down menu).

Yeah, it would be nice if the Color Picker would live preview, like it does for text.

Thats correct, yes. It works fine on the presets, and fine on other colour pickers, just not that one for some odd reason. Doesnt make sense and I'm assuming just overlooked by Adobe rather than technical reason, surely?

charles badland wrote:

 

If you post a Feature Request zarrdave... include Color Picker preview for Shape Fill as well.

Well spotted, hadnt even thought to check that too. Will do, thanks.

Curt Y wrote:

 

zarrdave wrote:

 

You're then moving the colour picker dialogue box to one side so you can see he shape created, and you've then tried clicking on different colours and the border color has changed after each click (but before you press OK)?

 

If thats working so the color changes in real time for you, then unfortunatley I've got a problem with my version.

Using Win7 CS6 extended, and following your instructions it works for me.

 

Border changes withn I click on color pallet with color picker.

Odd, same version/ O.S. here, thanks for that though Curt Y. Are you sure you're not clicking on the preset colours and actually using the color picker dialogue box.

I've been in a bit of a rush here at the office and appologise for not being clearer and posting a screencap earlier.

To clarify, its the Cyan dialogue box not the orange box I'm talking about  (nice choice of colours I know ). The top right icon in the organge box with the colours in is how you get to it.