Can you add a feature please?
One of the jobs of the Juicer 3 application team is to evaluate customer requested features that come in from the Digital Juice web site or other sources. We get a lot of requests. Most are well thought out ideas that get screened and added to the software development plan right away. On rare occasions however, we learn a lesson about our hastiness in responding to customer requests for new features.
This was the case recently when someone on the DJ Forums requested that we enhance the color picker dialog that is available for the Colorize options in the Settings Panel(under Layer > Effects > Simple/Duo/Tri Colorize). The idea was simple and made a lot of sense: Why not add an eye drop type button that allows the end user to pick a color from their desktop or other application window?
Ummmm... it already does that
As the request was passed onto the development team, there was an immediate response that the Juicer already provided the requested functionality, albeit in a slightly different form that was somewhat lacking in the ole' intuitive-ness department. It also turned out that the feature somehow went largely undocumented, so it was very likely many users had no idea the feature ever existed. Hence the title of this blog post, "Secrets of the Juicer". If it was a secret to me, I'm sure it is a secret to most of you.
After some discussion with the team, we've decided to tackle the problem with a two pronged approach. Firstly we need to make the feature more intuitive in a future release of the Juicer. We will do that. Secondly, we thought it important to share the secret of the Juicer 3's color picking power as soon as we discovered that some users may not know about it's existence.
The following flash tutorial provides detailed step-by-step instructions to get the color picker working for you. In addition it also takes you through the process of copying and pasting attributes. We hope you find it useful!
Click here to see the Flash Tutorial
