Mikey Watson

[Mikey Watson]

I have just downloaded the latest update for Designer, as I have been waiting for the Select Same feature. It seems to work partly, but I may have discovered a bug...

I have a drawn two identical circles. One I have coloured the fill. If you select the other circle and fill it with the same colour using the eye dropper tool, then try to use Select Same Fill, it does not recognise that they are both the same colour...

Do they need to be in the colour palette for this to work?

[Alfred]

Welcome to the Serif Affinity Forums, Mikey.  (By the way, the ‘Title’ box, displayed when you create a thread, is intended for the topic title rather than your name.)

I’ve just checked in Affinity Designer 1.9.0 on iPad, and I see the same behaviour as you’ve described: I agree that it shouldn’t matter how you apply the fill, as long as it’s the same. Good catch!

[Old Bruce]

I am thinking that it needs to have the same RGB values so it doesn't work in CMYK documents. Which makes it rather useless.

[walt.farrell]

56 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

I am thinking that it needs to have the same RGB values so it doesn't work in CMYK documents. Which makes it rather useless.

Select Same Fill works in CMYK documents, using CMYK colors, on Windows.

[Old Bruce]

17 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Select Same Fill works in CMYK documents, using CMYK colors, on Windows.

Is that true if you use the eyedropper tool to change from grey to a selected pink from another object? I find that the colours don't match up.

[walt.farrell]

9 minutes ago, Old Bruce said:

Is that true if you use the eyedropper tool to change from grey to a selected pink from another object? I find that the colours don't match up.

Yes.

But make sure that the Color panel is in the proper color mode. While experimenting to answer your question, in one case that it didn't work, but the Color panel was for some reason in LAB mode. I switched it to CMYK (without making any other changes), reassigned the color, and the selection then worked.