Advanced Member 3dCoatWannabe Posted April 30, 2011 Advanced Member Report Share Posted April 30, 2011 I'd like to be able to pick a color from another window on my computer. If not, how can I pick a color from an existing image? Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member jamie Posted April 30, 2011 Advanced Member Report Share Posted April 30, 2011 I'd like to be able to pick a color from another window on my computer. If not, how can I pick a color from an existing image? Thanks! Hmmm good question. I just tried on the latest linux version... You can't pick from a background image You can't pick from the current material (stamp/stencil image) You can't pick from another window/application You could import an image plane and load the image onto that. Kind of a pain tho. Or stamp some of the image onto your object by loading as a material. Perhaps there is a better way, but I can't find it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member 3dCoatWannabe Posted April 30, 2011 Author Advanced Member Report Share Posted April 30, 2011 Yeah, the first thing I tried was to pick from a background image. I ended up using Photoshop to get the RGB values. BTW - they was it's set up, 3D Coat takes a few extra steps to enter RGB values from the dialog, it could be a lot simpler. But, for the future, being able to eyedrop from anywhere, another app included, would be very handy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philnolan3d Posted April 30, 2011 Report Share Posted April 30, 2011 While not free Leigh Bamforth (LJB on this forum) has a small image viewer app that can pick colors and put them in 3DC So just take a screenshot for the image viewer, then pick color from that. http://scary-monsters.org/purchase_reference_image I also use IrfanView, the free image viewer which won't color pick for 3DC but it will tell me the values to type in. http://irfanview.com/ Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member ghib Posted April 30, 2011 Advanced Member Report Share Posted April 30, 2011 Have you guys tried the image picker option in the color picker? I use the marquee screengrab function in OneNote to paste from reference. This gives you the ability to steal colours from images or any kind of reference really. If you don't have OneNote then I'm sure you can print screen and paste in xnview, crop then paste in 3dc. A matter of seconds. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
philnolan3d Posted April 30, 2011 Report Share Posted April 30, 2011 Yeah I don't know what I was thinking, you can actually just hit PrntScrn and then paste directly into 3DC's image picker. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Advanced Member ghib Posted April 30, 2011 Advanced Member Report Share Posted April 30, 2011 Phil yeah I used to do that but I don't like having absolutely massive images in the image picker so a quick crop fixes that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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