Juergen S Posted December 27, 2020 Posted December 27, 2020 Pipette bug??? Hello, unfortunately I do not manage to use the eyedropper tool. For example, if I want to fill a text frame with a background color via the eyedropper, the preselected color is always taken. the eyedropper simply cannot be activated! Remove fill color and Frabe, on the other hand, work perfectly. It almost seems to me that the mouse hover Arial moves over both elements, i.e. over the round color field icon AND over the eyedropper icon, so that one click on the eyedropper activates the color icon. Can this be so? Kind regards Juergen Quote
walt.farrell Posted December 27, 2020 Posted December 27, 2020 It sounds like you are talking about the combination "eyedropper and color well" in the Color panel (or Swatches panel, or several other places). This one: It operates differently from the Color Picker Tool, The tool in the Color panel must be dragged to the place you want to sample. Once you have done that, the color well is filled with the sampled color. Then you click on the color well to activate the color and assign it to the selected object. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.5, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.5
Juergen S Posted December 28, 2020 Author Posted December 28, 2020 Hello Walt, in fact, I did not think of dragging the eyedropper. I always clicked on it. In the workbook it also only says succinctly: 'Alternatively, you can also extract colors directly from the image with the color pipette'. However, it works wonderfully, which is why I would like to thank you for the tip. 😁 Kind regards Juergen walt.farrell 1 Quote
thomaso Posted December 28, 2020 Posted December 28, 2020 2 hours ago, Juergen S said: 'Alternatively, you can also extract colors directly from the image with the color pipette'. Maybe they talk about the Color Picker Tool (identical pipette icon)? That works simpler and applies a color just with a single click. For instance... https://forum.affinity.serif.com/uploads/monthly_2020_12/1303529718_textcolorwitheyedropper.m4v.fa1e9acc2456150766c042c983f1f43c.m4v https://forum.affinity.serif.com/uploads/monthly_2020_04/645935963_colorpicker-2differentworkflows.m4v.90ec4455255f101e5a5de1ee74dabff0.m4v Quote • MacBookPro Retina 15" | macOS 10.14.6 | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 • iPad 10.Gen. | iOS 18.5. | Affinity V2.6
Juergen S Posted December 30, 2020 Author Posted December 30, 2020 Hello thomaso, yes, that is exactly the reason why I was 'on the wrong steam'. The Color Picker is one time by click and the other time by drag and drop. But now everything is clear. I am a publisher newbie. Can you please still tell me how to get the fill color and outline color permanently in the toolbar as seen in this link. Thanks in advance https://forum.affinity.serif.com/uploads/monthly_2020_04/645935963_colorpicker-2differentworkflows.m4v.90ec4455255f101e5a5de1ee74dabff0.m4v Juergen Quote
Juergen S Posted December 30, 2020 Author Posted December 30, 2020 Addendum: Just found it: If you specify two columns or more, a color selector element will also appear in the toolbar. This element corresponds to the color selectors in the Color panel as well as the Swatches panel. Quote
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