Color Picker not working off App (Off work area)

[hburkes88]

I am having trouble with the color picker in Affinity Design for Mac that I am hoping to get an answer on.

The color picker that is located in the colors panel should and used to work fine to sample a color on any window or app on my computer and I often used designer's color picker while editing raw product photos in Photo to make sure that my backgrounds were fully blown out to be completely white.

Sometime recently it quit working that way and now will only sample colors on the AD window and the background image of my desktop. If I hover over any other window or even the icons on my desktop then the color picker just samples what is behind it on my main desktop photo.

Can anyone shed any light on this? Do I have some sort of setting on/off?

Thanks all!

-H

[kaffeeundsalz]

The Affinity applications must have Screen Recording permissions from macOS in order to get the color picker working correctly. You can check this at System Preferences > Security & Privacy > Screen Recording. However, since permissions are really just an on or off setting in macOS, this doesn't explain the occasional malfunctions and seemingly random behavior you describe.

[hburkes88]

You are both fantastic! That fixed my issue!

I've gotten a new MacBook recently and assumed that it had worked since that point but on further reflection think that I must have had the permission checked on the old one but not the new.

Thanks so much for taking the time to help me with this. Have a fantastic day!