PP Documentation 2.1

Painter's Picker 2.1 ★Introduction ★Reporting a Bug ★Installing Painter's Picker ★Loading Painter's Picker ★Picking a Single Color ★Picking a Color Scheme ★The Schemes ★Understanding Web Safe Colors ★Working Well with Others ★Hiding Distracting colors ★Making the Color Picker Bigger ★Using the Controls ★Registering Painter's Picker ★Glossary ★A note about Phi and the Golden Section 1 1. Introduction Thank you for downloading and trying Painter's Picker. Painter's Picker is an extension to Apple's Color Picker that adds a color wheel control to the old staple of Apple Color Picker panels. It will let you choose single colors in a very simple way, but also very quickly find relationships between colors. If you've ever played with a color wheel or just looked at a color chart in an optometrist's office, then you're familiar with the kind of color wheel that Painter's Picker uses. If you've ever stood in a paint store looking at swatches and wondered how to find 2, 3 or four colors that will look decent together, then you will appreciate Painter's Picker's system for choos- ing color schemes. If you've ever used some other color wheel programs for Mac OS X, but disliked having to open another application and interrupt your workflow, then you'll like the fact that Painter's Picker ap- pears right in the color picker, so it's that much easier to use. If you're a person who needs to work with color, and make sure that colors work together, whether for print or the web or computer graphics, then you'll find Painter's Picker to be simple, available and powerful. 2 2. Reporting a Bug We have tried very hard to make Painter's Picker as stable and useful a product as we can. How- ever, sometimes bugs appear. If you discover a bug, you can follow the following steps: 1) click the Actions Popup Menu and choose "Report a Bug". Your favorite email program will open and create a new message addressed to our bug report address at Old Jewel Software. 2) Type your report. Be sure to include as much information as possible, including what program you were using at the time, how often the bug occurs, any special steps that are needed to repro- duce it, etc. 3) Send your report. Or, if you cannot access Painter's Picker, you can simply send email to feedback@oldjewelsoftware.com. Include the version of Painter's Picker you're using and as much of the above information as you can. We try to respond to every correspondence, but often fail. Your report will be read shortly after you send it. A response can take several days sometimes, though. …