Colour picker converts picked colour read-out to currently selected colour window colour mode

[tatanka]

The Publisher (and probably Designer too) colour picker converts the colour values of the picked object to whatever the colour-values would be in the display mode the colour window is in at the time of the pick. This means that I can never know what the colour mode and colour value an object is. I can only pick the object and read values of the object colour converted into whatever colour mode the colour window is in at the time.

For the life of me I can’t understand why you would do this. I expect the colour window to change to the selected/picked object colour model and colour values when I select or colour-pick it.

Publisher document attached. Screenshot attached.

Colours.afpub

[loukash]

1 hour ago, tatanka said:

I can never know what the colour mode and colour value an object is

You can:

• unlock the Colors panel (click the lock icon so that it opens which is – duh! – barely a visible difference but… meh…)
• select the object

[loukash]

Also note that Gray 0 ≠ K100. Grays will always result in rich black, i.e. based on RGB.
If you need to print your grays in CMYK on the K plate, you must consequently apply CMY=0 & K=0–100 to any gray object.

[tatanka]

1 hour ago, loukash said:

You can:

• unlock the Colors panel (click the lock icon so that it opens which is – duh! – barely a visible difference but… meh…)
• select the object

Bingo! Sanity restored, thanks

[tatanka]

1 hour ago, loukash said:

Also note that Gray 0 ≠ K100. Grays will always result in rich black, i.e. based on RGB.
If you need to print your grays in CMYK on the K plate, you must consequently apply CMY=0 & K=0–100 to any gray object.

I’m still trying to figure out how things are done here in Affinityland. I wish there was a guide, tutorial, in video or text on how a colour managed workflow should be done. If you know of such a thing do let me know.

[loukash]

Just now, tatanka said:

If you know of such a thing do let me know.

Hm, for a start check out my recent posts.  
I think in the past few weeks (but also last year) I have participated in quite a few threads on that topic…