Need advice: colour

[Stormdemon]

I'd like to know your opinions. What colour do you think fits better to my control panel? I'm doing some tests with Photoshop. I've attached 4 samples: light grey, dark grey, dark bluish and bone/computer colour. I think my fav is light grey. It's different and has a high tech modernistic look. I've also attached a pic of the touches of decoration I will add. The MAME logo will be cut from a thin table.

[Stormdemon]

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[Spaced Invader]

I think my fav is light grey. It's different and has a high tech modernistic look.

Sounds like you've already decided.  

I prefer the dark grey, but the light grey does have a more original look. Your design is clean and simple...it'd gonna look good with whatever color you decide to use. Don't forget to post pics in Project Announcements when your done!

[pointdablame]

I really like the blue color, but I think with your joy and buttons blue already, it would not work well. If you had diff color joy/buttons, I'd say blue, but as it is I like the light grey.

[TalkingOctopus]

Dark Gray.  It looks great, nice work!

[grafixmonkey]

I like that blue color.

[SirPoonga]

I like the blue and dark grey.

[menace]

I say--gray--What feature of photoshop lets you swap colors so nicely?  nicely done.

[grafixmonkey]

layer with mask matching the panel shape, set with composit mode = "color" and desired color painted solid full-opacity inside the mask.

[Brax]

Charcoal grey and I'd lose the green button.  

[Apollo]

And the white button.

[qaotik]

Hmm is that button layout downloadable somewhere or did you just made it yourself?

[pointdablame]

I actually really like that button layout too. Any chance we can get a template of it if you made it? or at least point us to where you found it if it isn't yours.  If I just add a 4th button on the bottom row, I think I've found my button layout

[Ted_Striker]

Ditch all the control buttons and use shift keys. (or are you using a keyboard or gamepad hack).  I like the light gray.  and I actually had a light gray panel for testing (made from some countertop I had lying around.  What I did find with a light colored top was that it got dirty quick and showed the dirt.  Now as I said, the panel was for testing, was in my workshop and I wasn't concerned with how clean my hands were... but the point is the same.  I'm not sure light colored control panels won't show dirt faster.

Anyone else experience this on a non-test panel?