Placed image colouring

[dmstraker]

Place an image. Click on colour panel colour or use colour picker tool.

Hue of image is changed to selected value.

[AlainP]

Confirmed, the placed image is like a fill layer.

[walt.farrell]

Yes, that's the way it's supposed to work, just like a Fill layer or any vector object. And just like them you need to deselect the object before selecting a color.

[AlainP]

52 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

Yes, that's the way it's supposed to work, just like a Fill layer or any vector object. And just like them you need to deselect the object before selecting a color.

Maybe... but it seems weird to me. OK for a vector object, but I'm not sure that it should work that way when placing image file, jpg, tiff, or whatever image format. It does not do this when you place a PDF file so it should work the same with image files.

But I've never got this problem as I always open, copy picture and then paste it in my document.

I'm doing some tests, I paste a "rtf" file and a ".txt" file. It also acts like a fill layer, selecting a color changes the text of those files, but I still can edit the text.....  I'm not convinced that it should work that way.

[walt.farrell]

58 minutes ago, AlainP said:

when placing image file, jpg, tiff, or whatever image format.

Note that Placing those formats (or pasting them) gives you an (Image) layer not a (Pixel) layer. The Fill attribute of a (Pixel) layer is harder to access

[dmstraker]

Not a hill to die on, but I'm with AlainP -- weird and likely to cause confusion, even with us dyed-in-the-wool folks.

Edit: ... just tinkering, it seems when you place an image, you can click on colour as above to change hue, but then you can also Convert to Curves, in which the hue change disappears and the original image appears. The image appears in the fill colour box. If you click on a colour now, it fills the image with the solid colour. However, when the fill is the image, you can do things like add it to a swatch and draw shapes with it as the fill.

Curiouser and curiouser. APh sometimes does a fair emulation of a rabbit warren.

[Alfred]

23 minutes ago, dmstraker said:

Curiouser and curiouser. APh sometimes does a fair emulation of a rabbit warren.

I see what you did there!

[jmliss]

This "undocumented" so called feature is quite annoying, compounded by the fact that I can't seem to find documentation on the three fill commands from the edit menu. I bumped into this problem some time ago when "placing" an image from stock. It seems from my brief experimentation that the three fill commands do not work on image layers as a result of my investigating this behavior. To say the least the on line help/documentation generally, and in this case specifically, leaves a lot to be desired. As Leonard from Big Bang Theory states "Im the king of the nerds" and I read the documentation ....

[Chris B]

Hey, this is by design.

An example of where this is useful is when we want to recolour stuff using say, a Pantone. I believe we do this when creating our workbooks. I agree it should probably be documented though.