NotMyFault Posted June 5, 2023 Posted June 5, 2023 The color picker in color panel picks totally wrong colors (desaturated) from pixel layers. RPReplay_Final1685975073.mov V2.1 1799 color picker bug.afphoto Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | Windows 10 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. My posts focus on technical aspects and leave out most of social grease like „maybe“, „in my opinion“, „I might be wrong“ etc. just add copy/paste all these softeners from this signature to make reading more comfortable for you. Otherwise I’m a fine person which respects you and everyone and wants to be respected.
Staff NathanC Posted June 6, 2023 Staff Posted June 6, 2023 Hi @NotMyFault, Looks like this is because the colour picker in the colour panel doesn't allow you to set a custom radius (nor does it follow the radius set on the colour picker tool), and instead samples from a 3x3 area, resulting in the desaturation shown in your recording due to multiple colours being sampled in a 3x3 radius. If you set and use the dedicated colour picker tool to Average (3x3) and then repeat this, the same desaturation can be observed due to the radius and minimal pixel distance between the colours. The ability to change the radius on the colour panels picker would be a good feature request. 🙂 Quote
Bryan Rieger Posted June 6, 2023 Posted June 6, 2023 32 minutes ago, NathanC said: The ability to change the radius on the colour panels picker would be a good feature request. 🙂 Or have the colour pixel radius automatically adapt depending on the zoom level. If you’re zoomed in and your cursor is over a single pixel, use a single pixel as the colour picker radius. Having to constantly change tool settings gets old quickly. DanH and NotMyFault 2 Quote
NotMyFault Posted June 7, 2023 Author Posted June 7, 2023 On 6/6/2023 at 12:31 PM, NathanC said: Hi @NotMyFault, Looks like this is because the colour picker in the colour panel doesn't allow you to set a custom radius (nor does it follow the radius set on the colour picker tool), and instead samples from a 3x3 area, resulting in the desaturation shown in your recording due to multiple colours being sampled in a 3x3 radius. If you set and use the dedicated colour picker tool to Average (3x3) and then repeat this, the same desaturation can be observed due to the radius and minimal pixel distance between the colours. The ability to change the radius on the colour panels picker would be a good feature request. 🙂 Hi Nathan, is it possible to get the documentation in help file updated to include the fact of 3px radius? It is quite surprising and inconsistent how the multiple color pickers act (which radius is used) Fill tool: uses 1px (tested) color panel: uses 3px (base on your reply, on iPad only). On Desktop, 1px is used!?! color chooser from tools section:1px (only visible if 2 rows are configured) Color picker tool: adjustable, default: 1x1px (tested) BTW: on Desktop, all color pickers use 1px radius , so this is a platform discrepancy. currently no information about radius is present: https://affinity.help/photo2/English.lproj/pages/Panels/clrPanel.html filed a feature request: Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | Windows 10 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. My posts focus on technical aspects and leave out most of social grease like „maybe“, „in my opinion“, „I might be wrong“ etc. just add copy/paste all these softeners from this signature to make reading more comfortable for you. Otherwise I’m a fine person which respects you and everyone and wants to be respected.
Staff NathanC Posted June 7, 2023 Staff Posted June 7, 2023 15 minutes ago, NotMyFault said: Hi Nathan, is it possible to get the documentation in help file updated to include the fact of 3px radius? currently no information about radius is present: That's a fair point, the notes could better reflect the colour picker's current behaviour in the colour panel. I'll log this with the docs team. NotMyFault and myclay 2 Quote
NotMyFault Posted June 7, 2023 Author Posted June 7, 2023 And please note the platform discrepancy. On Desktop, all color pickers seem to use 1px radius. In case you have transparent canvas, the color picker ignores those areas and averages only over opaque pixels. Quote Mac mini M1 A2348 | Windows 10 - AMD Ryzen 9 5900x - 32 GB RAM - Nvidia GTX 1080 LG34WK950U-W, calibrated to DCI-P3 with LG Calibration Studio / Spider 5 iPad Air Gen 5 (2022) A2589 Special interest into procedural texture filter, edit alpha channel, RGB/16 and RGB/32 color formats, stacking, finding root causes for misbehaving files, finding creative solutions for unsolvable tasks, finding bugs in Apps. My posts focus on technical aspects and leave out most of social grease like „maybe“, „in my opinion“, „I might be wrong“ etc. just add copy/paste all these softeners from this signature to make reading more comfortable for you. Otherwise I’m a fine person which respects you and everyone and wants to be respected.
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