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Title: Need advice: colour
Post by: Stormdemon on August 17, 2003, 09:30:53 am

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.

Title: Re:Need advice: colour
Post by: Stormdemon on August 17, 2003, 09:32:23 am

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Title: Re:Need advice: colour
Post by: Spaced Invader on August 17, 2003, 10:06:31 am

Quote from: Stormdemon on August 17, 2003, 09:30:53 am

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!

Title: Re:Need advice: colour
Post by: pointdablame on August 17, 2003, 11:16:43 am

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.

Title: Re:Need advice: colour
Post by: TalkingOctopus on August 17, 2003, 11:47:27 am

Dark Gray.  It looks great, nice work!

Title: Re:Need advice: colour
Post by: grafixmonkey on August 17, 2003, 07:06:49 pm

I like that blue color.

Title: Re:Need advice: colour
Post by: SirPoonga on August 18, 2003, 03:43:55 am

I like the blue and dark grey.

Title: Re:Need advice: colour
Post by: menace on August 18, 2003, 10:14:04 am

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

Title: Re:Need advice: colour
Post by: grafixmonkey on August 18, 2003, 10:58:38 am

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

Title: Re:Need advice: colour
Post by: Brax on August 18, 2003, 08:34:04 pm

Charcoal grey and I'd lose the green button.  :D

Title: Re:Need advice: colour
Post by: Apollo on August 18, 2003, 08:40:57 pm

And the white button.

Title: Re:Need advice: colour
Post by: qaotik on August 18, 2003, 08:59:42 pm

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

Title: Re:Need advice: colour
Post by: pointdablame on August 18, 2003, 09:27:50 pm

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 :)

Title: Re:Need advice: colour
Post by: Ted_Striker on August 19, 2003, 04:21:13 am

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?