Problems with Apple Color Picker

Is Snap to Web Safe enabled in the Fireworks Color Picker Options?

Jim Babbage

Well Fireworks doesn't work with - or understand - color profiles, so that is probably the issue.

The article below may be helpful.

http://www.fireworkszone.com/redirectionNbClicks.php?root=2&idTutorial=117

Jim Babbage

I'm having the same problem. It's not a problem with Fireworks, but rather with Apple's color picker. I've been trying to get help on the Apple forums, but nobody knows or seems to care; see here: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=12179323&tstart=0. This is literally a show stopper for me. I simply can't handle wasting my time chasing my tail around a color picker that keeps screwing me over. I'm surprised this problem isn't plastered all over the web; how are people dealing with this? The main problem, just to clarify, is the fact that the colour picker uses the Generic RGB profile, instead of the system profile. While on some color picker tabs, such as the slider tab, you can change this, it resets back to Generic RGB every time the color picker is re-opened.

LuckyNorth, have you managed to find a solution or work-around?

I've also had to deal with this issue. I at first thought I was going insane, or my eyes were going bad. Then I noticed it wasn't picking the right color. It also pisses me off that the Fireworks team couldn't make their own standard color picker to use instead of the crappy apple one. Copy and paste Photoshop's and I'd be happy. Please fix this.

Perhaps this may help:

http://www.idux.com/2010/03/11/another-new-color-palette-for-fireworks/

You can set this up as the default swatch panel in for the Properties panel. It doesn't replace the actual color picker, but might be more useful to you than what is already there.

Jim Babbage

Thanks for the reply, Jim!

That is a very nice color pallette--much better than Fireworks' default. Now just to find a way to get working HSV with gradients. The Color Mixer panel works fine for solid colors, but for any gradient it's useless.

Check out the Gradient panel, available as a free extension on the Adobe Exchange.

Jim Babbage

Already been using it. It's no more useful than the standard gradient editor in properties because it still uses the same color panel and picker as the standard one. Guess I just have to wait till CS6.

Well, add it to the wish list. If you just leave the problem here, it won't get addressed. This is a user to user forum, and not a place where Adobe reps hang out very often.

Jim Babbage

Luckynorth, King Wardrop, JonDumaine, and Jim:

I've taken a close look at this problem, identified the cause, and outlined what I believe is a reasonable solution for the Fireworks development team to pursue:

http://forums.adobe.com/message/4438130#4438130

http://forums.adobe.com/message/4443707#4443707

I encourage you each to post a bug report with Adobe regarding this issue, referencing the above thread as well as this one.

https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform

The more people request a fix for this issue, the more likely it is to get done. This one seems long, long overdue. (It's been two years since this thread, and users are still struggling with this today. I myself have confirmed this as a problem at least as far back as OS Tiger.)