Designer Lab color picker

[Doug.S]

In Affinity Designer 1.8.3.641 on win10 desktop, I set open new with Lab, color panel set to Lab mode and it shows Lab sliders OK.

But when I use color picker tool, it only displays RGB values....when seems like it should show Lab numbers.

Bug? or a setting to change?

If an error, Please update/fix so color sampler matches the color panel.

[v_kyr]

Set the color tool to show color sliders via the hamburger menu and then choose LAB colors there from the beside popup menu button selection.

 

[Doug.S]

As I said, I got that part OK,

But the color sampler eye dropper tool loupe over artwork shows RGB color numbers....why not Lab color numbers?

[Old Bruce]

14 minutes ago, Doug.S said:

As I said, I got that part OK,

But the color sampler eye dropper tool loupe over artwork shows RGB color numbers....why not Lab color numbers?

I am not seeing that on Mac OS 10.14.6 with Designer 1.8.3 so maybe it is a Windows thing.

[v_kyr]

For me on OSX it just changes from LAB to RGB when moving the picker loupe then outside of the doc boundaries.

 

 

[thomaso]

To me both color pickers (Tool or Panel) pick colors in the color model of my documents color space, regardless in what model the colors were created. Means a picked & assigned CMYK color gets converted to LAB if work in LAB document's space.

I can restrict the shown model in the Colors Panel by activating the lock icon left to its color model menu. But this way the picked colors still get picked & assigned in the documents color space even though they may appear different (according to the locked selection) in the Colors Panel.

[Doug.S]

Success, the lock icon must be set (depressed) and then eye dropper shows Lab numbers....

 

Thanks, that was the answer I needed

[thomaso]

4 minutes ago, Doug.S said:

Success, the lock icon must be set (depressed) and then eye dropper shows Lab numbers....

Note: Even with active lock (pressed = darker background) for RGB, you can see LAB in the panel picker's tooltip: