Global colour eye dropper missing

[DM1]

When creating a global colour it is not possible to select a colour from within the open project as the colour studio eye dropper is missing. It is however available in Edit global colour pop up.

[Paul Mudditt]

2 hours ago, DM1 said:

When creating a global colour it is not possible to select a colour from within the open project as the colour studio eye dropper is missing. It is however available in Edit global colour pop up.

Hi Dave,

Not really sure how this is supposed to work, but once you have created your Global colours when you go to edit them, long press on colour, the picker then appears.

Maybe the logic is start with approx colours specify as global, then in the final edit change the global colour to something more accurate using picker etc

What I wasn’t expecting was this to only work in vector mode, was looking forward to this working in pixel mode here and in photo.

(The implementation seems to be a vector solution, probably adding parameters to each vector path whereas what would be really nice is a parameter to add to the colour constant to change it to a lookup variable into the global colours. I guess the danger is it would be like a coding hack and likely slow everything down so I feel their pain.)

[DM1]

12 hours ago, Paul Mudditt said:

Maybe the logic is start with approx colours specify as global, then in the final edit change the global colour to something more accurate using picker etc

Possibly, but I would have thought the ability to 'create' a global colour by sampling an existing design colour would be a no brainer. At the moment we need to create a global colour, then edit it in order to sample the designs colour. An unnecessary step? But it’s early days and shouldn’t be too difficult to add the dropper to both menus. 😁

 

[Sean P]

On 12/20/2020 at 8:00 AM, DM1 said:

When creating a global colour it is not possible to select a colour from within the open project as the colour studio eye dropper is missing. It is however available in Edit global colour pop up.

Thanks! The desktop dialog does have a Colour Picker so I'll get an improvement added.

On 12/20/2020 at 10:15 AM, Paul Mudditt said:

What I wasn’t expecting was this to only work in vector mode, was looking forward to this working in pixel mode here and in photo.

(The implementation seems to be a vector solution, probably adding parameters to each vector path whereas what would be really nice is a parameter to add to the colour constant to change it to a lookup variable into the global colours. I guess the danger is it would be like a coding hack and likely slow everything down so I feel their pain.)

This has always been the case with Global Colours since they were introduced. Generally if a colour is an attribute of an object (such as the case with vector objects) it is possible to use Global Colours, but if you've using that colour on a pixel layer then those pixels have been committed already and makes it next to impossible to modify them. 

For example if you're brushing with a colour using a smooth brush then the pixels will be of differing values to achieve the feather. Not to mention using filters on certain selections will then modify the pixel's original colour, or even pixel brushes which modify a HSL value using pressure