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Hey guys, moving from Adobe to Affinity (and super stoked). For the life of me, I can't get the color picker/eye dropper working. https://prnt.sc/ulxtqb - nothing happens when I click it and other than holding my mouse button and dragging it down to an area, where it kind of feels like it is doing something, but doesn't pick up any color. What am I doing wrong? I just want to use this eyedropper tool to pick up a color and assumed it would be easy.

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Welcome to the forums @a3creative,

You need to drag the color picker tool, (eye dropper) to the color you want to select, then click on it. That color will be represented in the color well, (the dot beside the eyedropper). Now you need to click on that dot.

Here's a link to the Affinity Online Help for Sampling Colors

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Just now, Ron P. said:

Welcome to the forums @a3creative,

You need to drag the color picker tool, (eye dropper) to the color you want to select, then click on it. That color will be represented in the color well, (the dot beside the eyedropper). Now you need to click on that dot.

Here's a link to the Affinity Online Help for Sampling Colors

Ok, so it doesn't quite work like Adobe where you click color using the eyedropper and it automatically colors it. Noted on your comment. Thanks.

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Your welcome, Also I had to amend the link, as it didn't take to the specific topic. It should now.

Affinity Photo 2.4..; Affinity Designer 2.4..; Affinity Publisher 2.4..; Affinity2 Beta versions. Affinity Photo,Designer 1.10.6.1605 Win10 Home Version:21H2, Build: 19044.1766: Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5820K CPU @ 3.30GHz, 3301 Mhz, 6 Core(s), 12 Logical Processor(s);32GB Ram, Nvidia GTX 3070, 3-Internal HDD (1 Crucial MX5000 1TB, 1-Crucial MX5000 500GB, 1-WD 1 TB), 4 External HDD

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4 hours ago, a3creative said:

Ok, so it doesn't quite work like Adobe where you click color using the eyedropper and it automatically colors it.

This is exactly how the Color Picker Tool (in Toolbar) works, if Apply to Selection in Context Toolbar is checked.

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