How do disable color picker "Apply to selection" by default

[rawalanche]

Hi, 

how can I disable "Apply to selection" feature of the color picker by default, so that it stays off every time I create a new document?

I can't imagine more idiotic idea than a color picker tool making modifications to the image by default, in any image editing software.

 

Thanks in advance.

[Alfred]

If you use the eyedropper in the Colour Panel it will put the picked colour in the associated colour well without applying it to anything.

[rawalanche]

That is not really helpful. My intention is to use hotkey, so that I can access the eyedropper quickly, without having to travel with the cursor all the way over to some UI panel.

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, rawalanche said:

That is not really helpful. My intention is to use hotkey, so that I can access the eyedropper quickly, without having to travel with the cursor all the way over to some UI panel.

You can't change the default, but you should only have to turn it off once per document.

Other than that, you can ensure you don't have any vector or Image objects selected when you use the Tool, and the setting shouldn't matter.

[rawalanche]

32 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

You can't change the default, but you should only have to turn it off once per document.

Other than that, you can ensure you don't have any vector or Image objects selected when you use the Tool, and the setting shouldn't matter.

Almost everything is a new document for me. 90% of the use cases is that I need to quickly edit an image pasted from clipboard to annotate something. And the images get pasted from clipboard without being rasterized, so this really is the default behavior of the tool. It's very frustrating.

It's just a trivial and frequent task:

1, Take screenshot
2, Press Ctrl+Shift+Alt+N to create new image from clipboard

3, Hold down the color picker shortcut to pick a color from image

You'd expect you will just pick a color, but what you get is your entire image tinted by that color instead. That's just insane.

[walt.farrell]

Thanks. You'll need to deselect the layer, or rasterize it. You can set a shortcut for Layer > Rasterize if it doesn't have one.

Or, possibly, you could just Undo after the issue changes color.

By the way, what do you do with the color once you've picked it?