Colour / image picker

[Mark Alington]

This is an image I have created to load into our desk and which I use virtually exclusively for selecting colours for fittings.

The first row is a basic selection of bright colours; row 2 has a mix of colours (great for creating "random" colours); row 3 has pastels; row 4 is a fade from dark blue to white; row 5 is a traditional rainbow; row 6 is a rainbow of secondary colours; the last row is a variation of colour temperatures (great for blending with other light fittings).

I created this using Visio. Please feel free to use and share.

[Erics]

Thank you. I like it ans will test it on my FLX S48.

[Edward Z88]

Hi Mark,

That's great, thanks for sharing.

If anyone else has any colour picker images like this they find useful, feel free to add them as a reply to share them.

Edward

[kgallen]

Brilliant Mark, I like it and will "steal" it for my FLX!

Kevin

[Carpo]

Great Mark - thank you for shaing.

The image is installed on my FLX S24 😉

[Davidmk]

This topic got me thinking. Since you can upload any image to use as the colour picker I wondered if I could get Excel to generate images that are suitable.

Attached you will find examples of a first attempt at this. Now, be warned, I haven't tried these in my desk yet and the proportions haven't been adjusted to match the LCD screen so it may not work as I expected (I don't think there is any way for an image file to damage anything though).

There are two picker images. The two way picker has a "rainbow" down the left side and the same, but offset on the right. The intermediate colours fade from the colour on the left to the one on the right. The four way picker has different colours in the four corners, the intermediate colours in left and right columns fade from the top colour to the bottom one then the rows fade from left to right.

I have also included the Excel spreadsheet so you can try some for yourself. Note that this does include macros and, while I am confident that my laptop is malware free and the code doesn't access anything outside of Excel, I accept no responsibility for any damage it may cause or be perceived to cause on your systems.

Feedback on the usefulness of this would be very welcome as would suggestions to improve it.

To use, set all the cells to no fill first then, for a 2 way picker, set A1 to A16 and P1 to P16 to various fill colours then click the 2 way button or, for a 4 way picker, set the four corners to different fill colours (e.g. RGBW) and click the 4 way button.

You can use the Windows 10 snipping tool to save the resulting screen as an image that you can load on your desk.

Picker.xlsm

[Edward Z88]

Hi David,

That's great, thanks for sharing. I have moved your post into this thread, so we can keep all the colour picker images together.

8 hours ago, Davidmk said:

Now, be warned, I haven't tried these in my desk yet and the proportions haven't been adjusted to match the LCD screen so it may not work as I expected (I don't think there is any way for an image file to damage anything though)

You won't damage the console by loading in an image file. If the file is corrupt, the console simply won't load it in. I have tested one of these images on a FLX and it loads in correctly.

Edward

[kgallen]

Here's David's 4-way colour picker as above but without the selected cell aberration in case anyone wants to use these directly. Great work guys!!!

 

[kgallen]

Whoooww, infinite fun!

Grey-scale... hmmm does this have an application...!

[Edward Z88]

1 hour ago, kgallen said:

Grey-scale... hmmm does this have an application...

Excellent if you have an RGB fixture without an intensity 😉

Edward

[jb07]

On 11/22/2019 at 12:20 PM, Edward- Z88 said:

Excellent if you have an RGB fixture without an intensity 😉

Edward

 

On 11/22/2019 at 12:20 PM, Edward- Z88 said:

Excellent if you have an RGB fixture without an intensity 😉

Edward

Personnellement j'utilise celle-ci, simple et efficace.

[drscoop]

This might be a bit too esoteric to be helpful for anyone else , but I'm finding this useful for a certain song from a musical about a multicoloured coat we're working towards just now... 😁

[kgallen]

37 minutes ago, drscoop said:

but I'm finding this useful for a certain song from a musical about a multicoloured coat

Oh must be a play by Brecht then 😲😂

[Jon Hole]

On 12/8/2019 at 7:14 PM, drscoop said:

This might be a bit too esoteric to be helpful for anyone else , but I'm finding this useful for a certain song from a musical about a multicoloured coat we're working towards just now... 😁

This is such a brilliant use of the image picker - I love it!!!

[kgallen]

Here's a more saturated version of David's 2-way picker. R/G/B are primaries.

[Davidmk]

Like it 😊

[kgallen]

11 hours ago, Davidmk said:

Like it 😊

Your great idea/work David, so the credit goes to you!

I just found with your original that the red came out a bit purple on my LEDs as the small amount of blue in your red (R=243,B=11) seemed to have quite a disproportionate effect.
 

Kevin

[Davidmk]

5 hours ago, kgallen said:

Your great idea/work David, so the credit goes to you!

I just found with your original that the red came out a bit purple on my LEDs as the small amount of blue in your red (R=243,B=11) seemed to have quite a disproportionate effect.
 

Kevin

Hmm. Maybe that's a reason for considering a v2. Bit busy at the moment but perhaps I could take a look at that. I just used Windows R, G & B but I could do something like allow the "seed" colours to be input as RGB values.

I've also been looking at hue/saturation.

[Peter Wright]

Re the selection of colours, would it be possible to have at least the Lee Filter swatch book included, as in the FLX and Solution? I find this much more useful than the mood boards.

[Edward Z88]

Hi Peter,

3 hours ago, Peter Wright said:

would it be possible to have at least the Lee Filter swatch book included, as in the FLX and Solution?

Unfortunately this feature will not be coming to FLX S. Full filter libraries will only be available on FLX, Solution and ORB consoles.

Edward

[kgallen]

3 hours ago, Peter Wright said:

Re the selection of colours, would it be possible to have at least the Lee Filter swatch book included, as in the FLX and Solution? I find this much more useful than the mood boards.

 

30 minutes ago, Edward- Z88 said:

Unfortunately this feature will not be coming to FLX S. Full filter libraries will only be available on FLX, Solution and ORB consoles.

Peter,

Take some screenshots from this page and assemble yourself a couple of images that can be uploaded to the image picker. Second prize I guess...

Lee Filters (Chroma Order)

Lee Filters (Number Order)

It's a little project someone on this thread might even pick up...

[drscoop]

Would these help?  Tried them out on our FLX S24 last night with a few RGB fresnels and some ETC Colorsource CYCs and all seemed to work ok....

First three are in Chroma, order, the fourth in numeric order bit it's a bit smaller than ideal.  May be OK on a large screen with the ZerOS Remote app running.

[kgallen]

Whoaaaaaaaaa! 👍

(Z88 marketing guys are livid. Image picker gets disabled in next version of ZerOS!)

[Edward Z88]

Nah go for it I call that ingenuity. Don’t worry I won’t tell the marketing team 😂

Edward

[CestM0i64]

With all the effort of creating images here it only seemed fair to create an account to thank you all.

I’m sure I’m going to be scrolling a while.

I’d quite like to have some images for common themes on my desk; forest/palace/night/etc. (Forest might be a gradient of greens and yellows for example)

If I create some I’ll certainly come and share them here.

 

Thank-you again and I hope I contribute soon.