Saturday, March 31, 2012

Turn ON/OFF Dynamic Color Sliders in Photoshop

By default Dynamic Color Sliders is turned on in Preferences > General. This option control behavior of sliders when you work with color in COLORS palette. Dragging any of sliders will cause color to change similar as in Color Picker dialog when choosing color from Color Slider which is in the middle of dialog.

Choose color with dynamic color sliders turned on in Photoshop

Dynamic Color Sliders ON

If you prefer to have sliders for base colors (R,G,B or C,M,Y,K or L,a,b) displayed, so you can mix colors in for my money more natural way turn Dynamic Color Sliders off.

Choose color with dynamic color sliders turned off in Photoshop

Dynamic Color Sliders OFF

Press Ctrl + K keyboard shortcut or go to Edit > Preferences > General and uncheck Dynamic Color Sliders.

Uncheck Dynamic Color Sliders in Edit > Preferences > General

Reference:
Photoshop / Choosing colors
Photoshop Help / Presets, Preferences, and Plug-ins

Product used in this tutorial: Adobe Photoshop CS5 Extended

Author: Bojan Živković

Freelancer, Graphic Designer, Blogger, Certified Expert on Photoshop. Currently live in Niš, Serbia. Speaking English and Greek. Manager of several blogs and groups in English and Serbian.