[Bug? - Color picker eyedropper not working for Outer Shadows]

Add Inner Glow and Outer Glow effects as to this behavior of the colour picker/eyedropper not working as well.

[Bug? - Color picker eyedropper not working for Outer Shadows]

OK, so I create an item, let's say a simple box. I select it and want to give it an Outer Shadow. Use default black, set opacity and offset. Then I decided to give the shadow a colour. Clicking in the color box, I can select a new value with swatches, sliders, etc. which changes the shadow's colour as desired. So I try the eye dropper/color picker tool. I can drag it over an existing color in the graphic, but it simply doesn't pick up that color for the shadow. I would expect it's behavior to be consistent where ever, when ever it's used. Inner shadow behaves this way too.

[Select Sampled Colour...]

Thanks MEB, though I wonder how long this would have taken me to discover how it works. Not intuitive and there's nothing in the online help, yet.

Again - thank you!

[Getting ahead of myself - Pantone question]

Let's try this, any idea when Pantone support will be added to the release?

[Tabs and Tab close suggestions]

On Both Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo Beta, I find seeing the tabs and the tab close box very difficult. Perhaps it's my eyes and my monitor, but I'd love to see a little more contrast so that both the tabs and the close boxes show up a little better without squinting to see them. Again, a small quibble, but something I found a little annoying. Thanks!

[Tabs and Tab close suggestions]

On Both Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo Beta, I find seeing the tabs and the tab close box very difficult. Perhaps it's my eyes and my monitor, but I'd love to see a little more contrast so that both the tabs and the close boxes show up a little better without squinting to see them. Again, a small quibble, but something I found a little annoying. Thanks!

[Select Sampled Colour...]

Hi, I would assume Select Sampled Colour would select the sampled color and allow for a tolerance in the range. I've tried this in both Affinity Designer and Affinity Photo Beta, and either it's not implemented yet, or it has a way of working that's not obvious or intuitive. First, I found to use the eyedropper tool, I had to click and drag the eyedropper over to where I wanted to sample/select a colour, seems clicking on should suffice. Once selected I tried the menu item Select Sampled Colour and cannot get any activity from this. If I'm going about thus wrong, please correct me. Otherwise I look forward to this working intuitively and correctly at some point. Thanks!

[Getting ahead of myself - Pantone question]

Hi, for Affinity Designer, when Pantone support comes on-line, would I be able to take say an EPS graphic, let's say a logo design, in CMYK colour and convert it to tones/transparency/density of a single Pantone colour? So a full colour logo, could be re-coloured into shades of a single Pantone color?

Thanks!

[Cutting a vector drawing into two pieces?]

Thanks MEB, that works perfectly for what I had in mind. Thank you for the time and efforts to post an instructional video.

Impressive program - impressive support forums!

[Cutting a vector drawing into two pieces?]

Hi All, I've created a vector drawing with the pen tool that's petrol pump with a dispensing hose.

I've decided I wanted to do a black and light gray gradient around the hose to give it some roundness. Make it appear as a round rubber hose. I want the petrol pump body different colors. How do I go about splitting the hose off from the pump body and rejoining the pump body where the hose segment attached? Without redrawing the pump body and hose separately?

Thanks in advance!