Yeah, it would be better if this workflow gave a live preview of its changes.
As a temporary workaround, you can get the behavior you are looking for by double-clicking the shape thumbnail in the layers panel. This should open the same color picker dialog and changes there will be reflected live on the canvas.
"As a temporary workaround, you can get the behavior you are looking for by double-clicking the shape thumbnail in the layers panel. This should open the same color picker dialog and changes there will be reflected live on the canvas."
But if I want to change the stroke color (not fill)?
Using the traditional method of applying a stroke to a shape (i.e. using the fx button in the layers panel to add a layer effect) the stroke color picker shows a real time update on your working document as the picker color is selected. In the new stroke properties bar at the top (the one with new features like gradients to a stroke, dotted lines etc) the color picker doesnt have re-time previews (on my version anyway).
Anyone know why? Is there a setting to activate? Surely both color pickers should show real time updates without having to click on OK to see changes each time. A small but annoying waste of time when repeated multiple times.
This has always seemed like a surprising oversight to me. Not being able to preview the effects of a modal dialogue is a big workflow roadblock. It discourages experimentation and generally makes the feature feel half-baked.
Seriously Adobe this is effing annoying. Utterly embarrassing for such a 'prestigious' piece of software. It's been a while since I've had to use PS, and damn, you guys are years behind the competition now.
This really needs to added as a feature. Not being able to preview the stroke color when choosing it is a pain. And what's especially strange: there is realtime preview implemented of the shape color when double-clicking the layer thumbnail, but not when doing it via the properties panel.
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