True Painters Wheel Beta

True Painters Wheel Beta
A custom color picker Plug-in for Adobe Photoshop.
Copyright © 2014-2015 by Piero Vettori
Free for personal use.

Features

RYB Primary Colors
The colors are usually represented by software with the RGB system, but painters prefer to work with the RYB system because it better represents the way our eyes actually see relations between colors.

Real Opposite Colors
There is no such thing as "opposite colors" in physics. It is just the way our eyes see colors that allows us to perceive opposites.
When you work with the RYB color wheel you can find the opposite of any color at the other side of the wheel the same way our brain conceives it.

HSB Indicator
This label shows the actual values of Hue, Brightness and Saturation.

Color Checker
This square shows the last selected color.
It also shows the color you are selecting when dragging over the wheel or triangle so you can see by contrast the difference between your current color and the previous one.

Snap-on Inner Wheel
It may be useful to select the exact primary and secondary colors without having to search them on the continuous color wheel.
The sectors inner wheel also work as snap-on selectors while dragging the mouse over them.


Install
Click the download button to the right (or just click here).
Extract the content of this archive and put it in your Photoshop application Plug-ins folder.
This usually is: %PROGRAMFILES%/Adobe/Photoshop <ver>/Plug-ins/Panels/
After copying the source files into the Plug-ins folder open Photoshop and open the Window menu.
Locate the Extensions submenu and you should see a new item named "TruePaintersWheel".
Just click the menu item and a new panel or icon should show up in the Photoshop window.


Version info
This plugin is currently in development and it has been tested only with Photoshop CS6 on a Windows 7 machine.
It should work on both PC and MAC and with other versions of Photoshop.
20150104: The actual spread of the hues may seem uneven. I'm still looking for the best way to show them.
20150105: It seems not to be compatible with Photoshop CC. Looking for a workaround.
20150529: Not compatible with Photoshop CC (and perhaps CS6 Extended Portable) because flash plugins are no more supported.
20160717: A new version rewritten for Photoshop CC will be released in the near future. Please be patient!


If you try it with another system and/or version of Photoshop please let me know if it works.

For any request or suggestion feel free to leave a comment below.