[Photo] Color Picker in Isolated Layer View?

[LordStuff]

Hi there!

If you Alt-LMB on a layer you get into an isolated layer display which is very helpful in many occasions. While in this view, the color picker tool ("I" or just ALT-LMB on the pane) still selects the top-most color, which you cannot currently see however. Even the preview on the color picker shows the expected result but the resulting color is different.

You can see in the following picture, I'm trying to select a gray tone, while the color values and border shows the purple color that will be selected eventually.

It's easy to reproduce but I attached a little test setup.

I don't know if this can be considered a bug or expected behavior, but it would only be intuitive and also very powerful if you could pick the color you actually see. Would be magic if you have a seperate layer to do some shading and you want to make a nice blend there, but I'm not able to pick the color in between.

Thanks and cheers!

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[v_kyr]

The color pickers (the color picker tool and the one at the color wheel) have two modes/states (global and current layer). - If you set it's mode to "current layer" it should also fetch the right color on an isolated layer (Alt-LMB) then.

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Source—determines from where the tool can pick colors—Current Layer restricts picking to the currently selected layer; Global picks from all layers.

See also the online help here!

[LordStuff]

😱 Dankeschön!

[v_kyr]

You are welcome (bitteschön)! 😃

[Xzenor]

Sorry to hijack your post but I have a small closely related color-picker question.

Do settings you change in the color picker also work when you holt alt+LMB in brush mode? Like the radius for example.
I tried experimenting with it but it's hard to test this..

[walt.farrell]

24 minutes ago, Xzenor said:

Do settings you change in the color picker also work when you holt alt+LMB in brush mode? Like the radius for example.

No.