Justin_Sijbolts Posted July 9, 2023 Share Posted July 9, 2023 Hey there, my new MacBook arrived a few days ago and I noticed that, unlike on Windows, the colour picker doesn't seem to pick colours outside of the canvas. Although it has Screen Recording permissions set, it simply picks white. The "preview" is fine, but it doesn't actually choose the colour. I've attached a screen recording where I try to pick a colour outside of the canvas and inside of the canvas. Inside the canvas it works fine, outside the canvas it **always** returns white. Is there anything I'm doing wrong? My friend, a longer-time macOS user, is not experiencing this. Useful info: MacBook Pro M2 Max macOS Ventura 13.4.1 Affinity Photo & Designer 2.2.0 Screen Recording 2023-07-09 at 14.37.41.mov Quote Windows: Razer Blade 14 (2021) - RTX 3060, Ryzen 9, 16GB RAMmacOS: MacBook Pro 14" (2023) - M2 Max, 32GB RAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hangman Posted July 9, 2023 Share Posted July 9, 2023 Hi @Justin_Sijbolts, Strangely enough, I just discovered the exact same thing so this does look like a bug in 2.2.0 Quote Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 Affinity Designer Beta 2.6.0.2861 | Affinity Photo Beta 2.6.0.2861 | Affinity Publisher Beta 2.6.0.2861 MacBook Pro M3 Max, 36 GB Unified Memory, macOS Sonoma 14.6.1, Magic Mouse HP ENVY x360, 8 GB RAM, AMD Ryzen 5 2500U, Windows 10 Home, Logitech Mouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted July 9, 2023 Share Posted July 9, 2023 Just to be sure, you've both checked the permissions for the beta application? They would be separate from the permissions for the retail appliccation. By the way, it seems to work fine on Windows, still, but it doesn't require the same kind of permissions as macOS requires. Quote -- Walt Designer, Photo, and Publisher V1 and V2 at latest retail and beta releases PC: Desktop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 64GB memory, AMD Ryzen 9 5900 12-Core @ 3.00 GHz, NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3090 Laptop: Windows 11 Pro 23H2, 32GB memory, Intel Core i7-10750H @ 2.60GHz, Intel UHD Graphics Comet Lake GT2 and NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3070 Laptop GPU. Laptop 2: Windows 11 Pro 24H2, 16GB memory, Snapdragon(R) X Elite - X1E80100 - Qualcomm(R) Oryon(TM) 12 Core CPU 4.01 GHz, Qualcomm(R) Adreno(TM) X1-85 GPU iPad: iPad Pro M1, 12.9": iPadOS 18.1, Apple Pencil 2, Magic Keyboard Mac: 2023 M2 MacBook Air 15", 16GB memory, macOS Sequoia 15.0.1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin_Sijbolts Posted July 9, 2023 Author Share Posted July 9, 2023 7 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: Just to be sure, you've both checked the permissions for the beta application? They would be separate from the permissions for the retail appliccation. By the way, it seems to work fine on Windows, still, but it doesn't require the same kind of permissions as macOS requires. Yes, the permissions are set fine as far as I'm aware. - I can confirm that on Windows it works as it should. Hangman and walt.farrell 1 1 Quote Windows: Razer Blade 14 (2021) - RTX 3060, Ryzen 9, 16GB RAMmacOS: MacBook Pro 14" (2023) - M2 Max, 32GB RAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hangman Posted July 9, 2023 Share Posted July 9, 2023 1 hour ago, walt.farrell said: Just to be sure, you've both checked the permissions for the beta application? They would be separate from the permissions for the retail appliccation. By the way, it seems to work fine on Windows, still, but it doesn't require the same kind of permissions as macOS requires. Likewise for Monterey... Justin_Sijbolts and walt.farrell 1 1 Quote Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 Affinity Designer Beta 2.6.0.2861 | Affinity Photo Beta 2.6.0.2861 | Affinity Publisher Beta 2.6.0.2861 MacBook Pro M3 Max, 36 GB Unified Memory, macOS Sonoma 14.6.1, Magic Mouse HP ENVY x360, 8 GB RAM, AMD Ryzen 5 2500U, Windows 10 Home, Logitech Mouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff Sean P Posted July 10, 2023 Staff Share Posted July 10, 2023 Hi Justin_Sijbolts, Thanks for letting us know. This is an issue we do already have logged! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff EmT Posted July 10, 2023 Staff Share Posted July 10, 2023 Hi @Justin_Sijbolts We are aware of an issue where the Colour Picker Tool no longer works outside of the canvas, we've passed along your example to the devs. If you use the Colour Picker tool from the Colour Studio, you should still be able to pick a colour from outside the canvas. Quote List of V2 FAQ's | Beta Software Forums | Affinity Photo (V2) Tutorials | Affinity Designer (V2) Tutorials | Affinity Publisher (V2) Tutorials Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hangman Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 57 minutes ago, EmT said: If you use the Colour Picker tool from the Colour Studio, you should still be able to pick a colour from outside the canvas. Hi @EmT, Neither the Colour Picker from the Colour Palette, Context Menu nor the Colour Picker from the Colour Chooser currently work in the v2.2.0 Beta, you only see white as the preview colour. Justin_Sijbolts 1 Quote Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 Affinity Designer Beta 2.6.0.2861 | Affinity Photo Beta 2.6.0.2861 | Affinity Publisher Beta 2.6.0.2861 MacBook Pro M3 Max, 36 GB Unified Memory, macOS Sonoma 14.6.1, Magic Mouse HP ENVY x360, 8 GB RAM, AMD Ryzen 5 2500U, Windows 10 Home, Logitech Mouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Staff EmT Posted July 10, 2023 Staff Share Posted July 10, 2023 58 minutes ago, Hangman said: Neither the Colour Picker from the Colour Palette, Context Menu nor the Colour Picker from the Colour Chooser currently work in the v2.2.0 Beta, you only see white as the preview colour. Hi @Hangman this is a slightly different issue on MacOS which has also already been passed over to the devs. Quote List of V2 FAQ's | Beta Software Forums | Affinity Photo (V2) Tutorials | Affinity Designer (V2) Tutorials | Affinity Publisher (V2) Tutorials Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hangman Posted July 10, 2023 Share Posted July 10, 2023 Hi @EmT, The screen recording in the first post references the Colour Picker in the Colour Palette/Studio rather than the Colour Picker Tool in the tools palette which I believe is what you are referencing in your reply (three posts above this one). My reply to your reply where you said "If you use the Colour Picker tool from the Colour Studio, you should still be able to pick a colour from outside the canvas" was referencing the OP, as in, the Colour Picker tool from the Colour Studio not working, assuming Colour Studio means the Colour Palette... I think the posts have become a bit mixed up... but regardless if they've both been reported then all is good... Justin_Sijbolts 1 Quote Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 Affinity Designer Beta 2.6.0.2861 | Affinity Photo Beta 2.6.0.2861 | Affinity Publisher Beta 2.6.0.2861 MacBook Pro M3 Max, 36 GB Unified Memory, macOS Sonoma 14.6.1, Magic Mouse HP ENVY x360, 8 GB RAM, AMD Ryzen 5 2500U, Windows 10 Home, Logitech Mouse Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Justin_Sijbolts Posted July 14, 2023 Author Share Posted July 14, 2023 Update today has fixed the issue. Thanks! Quote Windows: Razer Blade 14 (2021) - RTX 3060, Ryzen 9, 16GB RAMmacOS: MacBook Pro 14" (2023) - M2 Max, 32GB RAM Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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