**Color Picker Evolution**
When we release it, that's the gist of it. I think it's fair to say that the color pickers that ship with OS 10 are maddening, from the Crayola box all the way down to the sliders to the big wheels. Having grown up on Corel and grown up on Photoshop, they're just not the way I like to choose colors. Yeah, I have a bit of a love-hate relationship with the color picker. It's got a lot of cool features, but it's not really how I want to work. For a lot of people who have been using Photoshop or Adobe's apps for a long time, they've developed a certain style of picking colors that I kind of like as well. So, we've loosely based our color picker on that, but we've also tried to push the bar forward a lot further.
**Compactness and Precision**
The main intention with this color picker was to keep it as small and compact as possible, because any pixel used on the Color Picker is a pixel that's not used to show your artwork. We want it to be really, really compact. I don't think many other pickers are certainly not pickers with lots of features, which makes them less efficient and more wasteful in terms of screen real estate. The second large motivation for this picker was precision. We wanted something that was incredibly accurate, so when you're using the Hue and Opacity sliders, a section above it pops open that's four times the Precision. This means you can have certain values on screen that would normally not be available to choose, but because of the extra precision area above it, you can jump up and slide around.
**Key Features**
This means even if the picker is only 250 pixels wide, you can actually hit all 360 degrees of Hue and have a few pixels worth of Mouse pixels to choose from. Normally, you only have as many positions as there are pixels wide on the screen. This precision makes a lot of sense, and I'm actually looking really forward to it. We're also shipping an install with it, so you don't even need to know that you just double-click it, and it's good to go! It will work in any Mac that supports standard OS 10 pickers.
**Development Update**
We've been building this one part at a time, assembling it component by component. We haven't had any major complications or issues – just the linear development process of getting it built, one day at a time. We're still not done, but we're almost on our way to my dream interface design and building tool! To find out more about Scala, Color Picker, or Scholar and general, you can go to banger.com, where you'll be able to download the free version. You can also follow me, Mark Edwards, on Twitter (@bango) or check out my website.
**Social Media Links**
You can also find Rene Richie every week on Iterate, every second week on Iterate with Mark and Seth, and more information on imore.com. Thank you very much, Mark!
"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enso I am talking to Mark Edwards whom you may know from awesome products such as everything made by Bango Mark how are you doing I'm going well thank you very much so you have been you know an Open Secret you've been working on Scala for the last long while of your life correct yeah yeah that's that's that's exactly summing it up perfectly it's been a long time and we we announced it um almost a year ago now and we still we still have a bit to go but we we finished another small part of it that we we think is is ready to be shared with the world and you're actually going to just give it away which is startling to me can you tell me what it is and why you're doing this so we we thought as part of as as part of scal we'd need a really great Color Picker a way to great way to choose colors um and one of the ways you can do that is by building an always 10 Color Picker that then integrates into any any Mac software and we we thought we just we'd give it away um let people play with it hopefully like it and then maybe they'll um check out Scara when we release it so that's that's the that's the gist of it I think it's fair to I don't know if you're going to say but I'm going to say that the color Pickers that ship with OS 10 are maddening from the Crayola box all the way down to the sliders to the big wheels having grown up on Carell and grown up on Photoshop they're just not the way I like to choose colors yeah I I have a a bit of a LoveHate relationship the the Color Picker has a lot of cool features there's a lot of stuff in there that's quite amazing but it's not really how I want to work so um certainly for a lot of people who have been using Photoshop or adobe's apps for a long time they they have a certain style of picking colors that I kind of like as well so um we've we've done something Loosely based on that but we've sort of um tried to push the bar forward forward a lot further as well so what were the what are the most important things for you for a color pick and work what what was your dream Color Picker so the going into this the the the main intention was to keep it as small and compact as possible because any any space any any pixel that is used on the Color Picker is a pixel that's not used for to show your artwork so we want it to be really really Compact and I don't think many other Pickers are certainly not Pickers with lots of features and the the the second um large motivation for this picker as you may have guessed anyway from from knowing me is um is is precision we wanted something that was was incredibly accurate so with um when you're using the the Hue and the opacity sliders uh a section above it pops open that's that's four times the Precision so that means you can have something that's a a width that would normally not let you choose certain values on screen but because there's a four times Precision area above it you can jump above and and slide around so even if the the Picker is only say 250 pixels wide you can actually hit all 360 Dees of of hue and have a few pixels few Mouse pixels to choose choose it from um whereas you normally only have as many positions as there are pixels wide on the screen if that makes sense it makes a lot of sense and I'm actually looking really forward to it and uh you were kind enough to let me try it out and it's actually really if you have not yet installed a custom Color Picker OS 10 does make it really easy to do that yeah it does it does we uh one thing you haven't got yet is we um we are shipping an install with it so you don't even need to know that you just double click it and it's it's good to go it'll work in any Mac up yeah I think that's the important thing any any app that supports standard OS 10 Pickers will now let you support the awesome scol picker exactly exactly and and drag the color swatches around and Sample colors from the screen and all the other kind of things that the um the Color Picker does stuff by default with the color Wells which is pretty cool and I have to ask this Mark not to torment you but just because I want it so badly how's how Scala the the large s Scala looking it's it's going really really well um the development's been incredibly linear in that we we have just been building it one part of a time we've been putting the wheels on you know and then doing the paint paint job whatever else is next you know just assembling it one one component at a time but unfortun Lego like Lego exactly it is such a massive project so we haven't had any there's been no speed humps there's been no issues there's been uh no complications at all it's just a matter of just getting it built one day at a time so we're we're a lot closer than we than we were 12 months ago but we're still we're not done so we're almost on our way to Mark's dream interface design and building tool exactly exactly where do people go to find out more about schola color pick or more about scholar and general and more about you mark so banger.com uh scalop pick will be I assume by this the time this video is shown that will be on the homepage um you can download it there for free and uh you can find me on um on Twitter as as Mark Edwards as Mark with the c or Bango on Twitter and.net and everything else social awesome you can find me Rene Richie you can find me every week on iterate well every second week on iterate with Mark and Seth and you can find more information on imore.com thank you very much Mark thank you very muchso I am talking to Mark Edwards whom you may know from awesome products such as everything made by Bango Mark how are you doing I'm going well thank you very much so you have been you know an Open Secret you've been working on Scala for the last long while of your life correct yeah yeah that's that's that's exactly summing it up perfectly it's been a long time and we we announced it um almost a year ago now and we still we still have a bit to go but we we finished another small part of it that we we think is is ready to be shared with the world and you're actually going to just give it away which is startling to me can you tell me what it is and why you're doing this so we we thought as part of as as part of scal we'd need a really great Color Picker a way to great way to choose colors um and one of the ways you can do that is by building an always 10 Color Picker that then integrates into any any Mac software and we we thought we just we'd give it away um let people play with it hopefully like it and then maybe they'll um check out Scara when we release it so that's that's the that's the gist of it I think it's fair to I don't know if you're going to say but I'm going to say that the color Pickers that ship with OS 10 are maddening from the Crayola box all the way down to the sliders to the big wheels having grown up on Carell and grown up on Photoshop they're just not the way I like to choose colors yeah I I have a a bit of a LoveHate relationship the the Color Picker has a lot of cool features there's a lot of stuff in there that's quite amazing but it's not really how I want to work so um certainly for a lot of people who have been using Photoshop or adobe's apps for a long time they they have a certain style of picking colors that I kind of like as well so um we've we've done something Loosely based on that but we've sort of um tried to push the bar forward forward a lot further as well so what were the what are the most important things for you for a color pick and work what what was your dream Color Picker so the going into this the the the main intention was to keep it as small and compact as possible because any any space any any pixel that is used on the Color Picker is a pixel that's not used for to show your artwork so we want it to be really really Compact and I don't think many other Pickers are certainly not Pickers with lots of features and the the the second um large motivation for this picker as you may have guessed anyway from from knowing me is um is is precision we wanted something that was was incredibly accurate so with um when you're using the the Hue and the opacity sliders uh a section above it pops open that's that's four times the Precision so that means you can have something that's a a width that would normally not let you choose certain values on screen but because there's a four times Precision area above it you can jump above and and slide around so even if the the Picker is only say 250 pixels wide you can actually hit all 360 Dees of of hue and have a few pixels few Mouse pixels to choose choose it from um whereas you normally only have as many positions as there are pixels wide on the screen if that makes sense it makes a lot of sense and I'm actually looking really forward to it and uh you were kind enough to let me try it out and it's actually really if you have not yet installed a custom Color Picker OS 10 does make it really easy to do that yeah it does it does we uh one thing you haven't got yet is we um we are shipping an install with it so you don't even need to know that you just double click it and it's it's good to go it'll work in any Mac up yeah I think that's the important thing any any app that supports standard OS 10 Pickers will now let you support the awesome scol picker exactly exactly and and drag the color swatches around and Sample colors from the screen and all the other kind of things that the um the Color Picker does stuff by default with the color Wells which is pretty cool and I have to ask this Mark not to torment you but just because I want it so badly how's how Scala the the large s Scala looking it's it's going really really well um the development's been incredibly linear in that we we have just been building it one part of a time we've been putting the wheels on you know and then doing the paint paint job whatever else is next you know just assembling it one one component at a time but unfortun Lego like Lego exactly it is such a massive project so we haven't had any there's been no speed humps there's been no issues there's been uh no complications at all it's just a matter of just getting it built one day at a time so we're we're a lot closer than we than we were 12 months ago but we're still we're not done so we're almost on our way to Mark's dream interface design and building tool exactly exactly where do people go to find out more about schola color pick or more about scholar and general and more about you mark so banger.com uh scalop pick will be I assume by this the time this video is shown that will be on the homepage um you can download it there for free and uh you can find me on um on Twitter as as Mark Edwards as Mark with the c or Bango on Twitter and.net and everything else social awesome you can find me Rene Richie you can find me every week on iterate well every second week on iterate with Mark and Seth and you can find more information on imore.com thank you very much Mark thank you very much\n"
