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1. Re: PS CS6: stroke color picker preview in real time not working
charles badland Jun 22, 2012 6:24 AM (in response to zarrdave)updates real-time for me...
I'd try quitting PS and trashing prefs, see if that clears it up:
Hold down shift+alt+cntrl (pc) or shift+opt+command (mac) AS you launch PS. You'll get a small dialog to ok resetting preference file.
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2. Re: PS CS6: stroke color picker preview in real time not working
zarrdave Jun 22, 2012 7:26 AM (in response to charles badland)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.
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3. Re: PS CS6: stroke color picker preview in real time not working
charles badland Jun 22, 2012 7:49 AM (in response to zarrdave)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.
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4. Re: PS CS6: stroke color picker preview in real time not working
zarrdave Jun 22, 2012 7:56 AM (in response to charles badland)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?
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5. Re: PS CS6: stroke color picker preview in real time not working
c.pfaffenbichler Jun 22, 2012 8:04 AM (in response to zarrdave)1 person found this helpfulDoesnt make sense and I'm assuming just overlooked by Adobe rather than technical reason, surely?
That’s difficult to judge – at least from my non-programmer perspective.
But a live preview would naturally improve the user experience.
In any case you could post a Feature Request over at
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6. Re: PS CS6: stroke color picker preview in real time not working
charles badland Jun 22, 2012 8:07 AM (in response to c.pfaffenbichler)If you post a Feature Request zarrdave... include Color Picker preview for Shape Fill as well.
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7. Re: PS CS6: stroke color picker preview in real time not working
Curt Y Jun 22, 2012 8:13 AM (in response to zarrdave)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.
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8. Re: PS CS6: stroke color picker preview in real time not working
zarrdave Jun 22, 2012 8:18 AM (in response to charles badland)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.
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9. Re: PS CS6: stroke color picker preview in real time not working
charles badland Jun 22, 2012 8:35 AM (in response to Curt Y) -
10. Re: PS CS6: stroke color picker preview in real time not working
zarrdave Jun 22, 2012 8:39 AM (in response to Curt Y)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.
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11. Re: PS CS6: stroke color picker preview in real time not working
Curt Y Jun 22, 2012 8:39 AM (in response to charles badland) -
12. Re: PS CS6: stroke color picker preview in real time not working
charles badland Jun 22, 2012 8:47 AM (in response to Curt Y) -
13. Re: PS CS6: stroke color picker preview in real time not working
zarrdave Jun 22, 2012 8:55 AM (in response to charles badland)Sorry guys, been in a rush today at work and been a bit distracted. Should have posted when I was less pre-occupied and made myself clearer. Hopefully we're all on the same page now, and I assume we're all having the same results of it not working now, its that correct?
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14. Re: PS CS6: stroke color picker preview in real time not working
Curt Y Jun 22, 2012 9:14 AM (in response to zarrdave)Yes, with the color picker selected you do not have real time results like you do when you just have the color pallet drop down box.
My thought is that when you select the color picker now you have two active windows, the pallet and the color picker fill color. The OS does not like it when you have two instruction windows open as it does not know what to do. Not a programmer, but seems like the color pallet should disappear when the color picker appears so it then has priority..
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15. Re: PS CS6: stroke color picker preview in real time not working
Chris CoxJun 23, 2012 12:18 AM (in response to Curt Y)
Yes, it's a bug. It was working near the end of CS6 development, and broke fairly late in the process.
Multiple windows isn't a problem (see things like the layer styles opening gradient editor opening a color picker), but that does make things more complex to preview.
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16. Re: PS CS6: stroke color picker preview in real time not working
ojak Aug 6, 2015 4:09 PM (in response to Chris Cox)As of CC 2015 (3 years from original post), the stroke color still doesn't live update. Did this bug fix just get lost in the shuffle?
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17. Re: PS CS6: stroke color picker preview in real time not working
jensl95989480 Sep 20, 2017 5:09 AM (in response to ojak)Now we have 2017 and it's still not working in CC 2017.1.1. What's up Adobe?