Okay I’ll follow up on that if need be. There were a couple other problems I encountered too.
At the point where you drop in the SVG image into the global I couldn’t get the right image in. I would first break the link and then try to drag in the correct SVG in but nothing worked. If you notice in the sidebar I have the user icon in the SVG dropzone but it is still showing a brain in the editor area above “Expert Team.”
Making a custom color in the theme window didn’t work. I clicked the plus next to orange to make the own custom set which I could then change to blue like in the example but nothing happened. It just stayed orange.
Can you record a screencast of the colour issue? I find Cleanshot X excellent for quick videos, they even have cloud hosting so you can easily post it here!
I’ll see if I can do that this week. Basically I’ll you are supposed to do to make the colors work is go to theme settings to colors hit the plus button flip the “custom” switch and then start changing the colors?
I followed along to the new tutorial right up to the point where I clicked the custom color plus button at the top of the color theme settings. Once I clicked that a new bar of colors came up on the screen in an orange just like your example on the screen.
I can click on one of the colors and the color picker comes up. The part that is different for me is that as I change the colors in the picker it isn’t updating the colors in the custom color simultaneously. I can see that when I do the same thing as you that you can get those colors to change right in sync with the movement on the color picker.
It is strange that only I seem to be getting this issue. I wonder what makes my set up different?
Also there was one piece in the video where the cards had the quote sign graphic up in the left hand corner. Can that be done in Elements too? That wasn’t done in the original video. It is kind of nice effect.
I did it like this; see my comment/video above. I think @handshaper used negative margins to achieve the effect. So yes, it’s definitely possible, and there are lots of different ways to do it
Here is the video clip when I try to make the custom colors work. You can see me clicking on one of the orange values and then clicking around the color wheel in the attempt to make the strip of oranges change like it does when you do the exact same thing.
I am not sure what the system colour pickers are? I tried picking a swatch once I was in the colour picker and that didn’t work either, it is not just the colour wheel that has this problem.
Picking custom colours has never worked for me. This was the case in both MacOS 14 and 15.
Okay that is good to have found out but I still find the interface confusing. There is no way to know that the small rectangle box in the color swatch will let me change to the new color. I was clicking outside that box expecting it to also open the color wheel and after noticing that this didn’t happen this made me figure that clicking it a single time wasn’t enough but there really isn’t a way to know that clicking it a second deactivates it either.
I’m not totally sure what clicking outside of that little rectangle does. It seems like it shifts over to a different shade of that same color? And why does there need to be a custom toggle if everything in this section is already a custom color?! When would I not have a custom color in the custom color sections?!
The idea is that you can pick a single colour and have darker and ligher shades generated automatically, this is very useful when designing websites. I couldn’t imagine working without this now.
The Custom option allows you to override the gradient and pick a different colour for each swatch in a palette.
Having darker and lighter shades is really helpful for sure! I could see that as a big time saver.
As far as the custom toggle what if it said something like “variegated.” This would be much more specific to what it does. Right you click “custom” twice in order to do two completely different operations! It is just too vague.
I’d still like to see something more specific then a blank rectangle. I don’t think it clues the user in to what it does. Even if it had something like a monochromatic color wheel in the middle of that square that would make it much more depictive. Usually an outline of something will refer to that item be selected, which in part is what is happening here, but it isn’t only selected it has a second operation once you click on it.
