P: Add custom colors for colour coding layers and groups

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
April 13, 2017
84 replies
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Wouldn't it be great to be able to use more colours than the 7 defaults for colour coding layers and groups? They're a great way (along with proper naming) to organise complex documents, but having only seven default colours to choose from means they start to become duplicated which pretty much defeats the purpose.

Would be really useful to have the ability (much like with Indesign and Illustrator) to use a wider palette of colours to colour code layers and groups.

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Kirmm Ella

Known Participant

It's been 8 years already and we still don't have an option to add more than 7 colors.

This is pathetic.

Stephen Marsh

Community Expert

Things to think about:

1) GUI - Would this just be another single icon for "custom", which when selected would then bring up a new window with colour picker? Then click on the custom icon to edit the existing colour values? Vertical real estate in the contextual menu is limited when right-clicking on the layer name, as opposed to the eye icon or thumbnail icon.

2) ACTIONS - How would this be recorded into an action and the underlying code that is generated by the action that would be used in scripting or UXP development?

3) BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY - what would happen when an older version of Photoshop opened a file containing a custom label colour.

These are of course issues for the developers, however, users have to give feedback or they may not like the implementation.

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Rako_occult

Participant

I really hope yes, i can't believe they haven't done it yet.

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FeedbackCommunityMember

Inspiring

is this ever going to happen ?
// In all fairness; Adobe wastes resources on so many pointless changes... and ignores changes that matter.

c.pfaffenbichler

Community Expert

I agree that more color options for Layer labelling would be an improvement but I would hesitate to call it

such an easy improvement

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FeedbackCommunityMember

Inspiring

Is there any real reason we are still stuck with the seven colour options for our layers in the layers pallet? Can it not be moved inline with the options in Illustrator, or even better yet, give us a colour palette to choose from. More colours would be a real help in some of my more complex files, some of them have hundreds of layers. Seems like such an easy improvement in the grand scheme of things.

Dominik Sourcé

Inspiring

It's a great feature request, but it should not be restricted to layer colors – the menu customization colors and action colors (button mode) are also restricted to those 7 colors. Therefore I think this should be addressed application-wide.