Brightness and Volumeįaster access to simple adjustments of brightness and volume can now be performed with quick flicks left and right on the brightness or volume buttons in the control strip. Now, you can simply scroll the colour picker to view more swatches without extending the window. Prior to High Sierra, one could drag the bottom of the window in steps of 1 swatch row and ones off the window couldn’t be accessed. While we’re here talking about the colour picker, on the desktop it now supports scrolling for more swatches. any of the blue swatches in the Touch Bar rows on RGB/CMYK/HSB slider pages) to show the + button and tap again to add the swatch! As demonstrated by the + icon on the right, the currently selected colour can be added to the swatches from this page, but another hidden feature is that a swatch can be added from any page: simply tap the colour shown on the right (i.e. The final selection is ‘swatches’, which presents a scrolling list of all the swatches that you’ve added to the list in the colour picker on the desktop.When any of these slider types are selected, the new sliders are shown these sliders now show the exact numbers they are set at, for example the Red is set to 28 in the screenshot of the Touch Bar below - previously this information was only available by looking at the colour picker on screen if it was visible and set to the correct page, now it’s always visible right on the Touch Bar, a much welcome improvement and makes Touch Bar colour selection much easier.All the different types of sliders which are available in the colour picker on the macOS desktop are now available in the Touch Bar: Grayscale, RGB, CMYK and HSB. Tapping the menu button (or holding and sliding) reveals a menu of different colour picker types to be shown on the Touch Bar.

These changes are accessible systemwide in any app which supported the macOS colour picker previously. All the new functionality is behind the button to the left. Still here is the ‘simple’ view, with a number of preset swatch colours to choose from and the functionality of these are identical. The Touch Bar colour picker has been greatly expanded with more functionality.

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