Daybo

Thank you, that seems to have been my problem - I had the layer selected. After deselecting the layer it did indeed work as described. Apologies for such a newbie question.

Thanks both of you! @DWright - It doesn't seem to make a difference, I can even go to Select->Deselect and still it seems to convert the image to a monotone image based on the colour picked by the eyedropper tool. I have to uncheck the "Apply to Selection" in order to for not to do this. @R C-R - Thank you! I think that can work for me. I like the "Copy Color to Clipboard as Hex option".

Hi All, I have just bought Affinity Photo, coming from years of Adobe products. So I'm learning the differences, and this may be a stupid question, but when I use the eyedropper tool to get a colour, I find that it puts the selected colour in the colour panel, but it also sets the fill colour of the image, and the whole image changes to a monotone image. All I want to do is get the hex value from the selected pixels without altering the image. If I de-select "Apply to selection" it doesn't change the image, but nor does it populate the hex value field. What am I doing wrong? Thanks