nickbatz Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 I'm trying to select the darker orange lines using Select Sampled Color. it's not cooperating. Of course I adjusted the Tolerance slider and tried different models, and also I tried boosting the contrast first. No go. EDIT: Apparently I didn't have the option to record mouse clicks on, but I clicked on them. TIA (This is a piece of a larger picture that I cut out and put on its own layer just to show what's going on.) Screen Recording 2024-06-08 at 5.30.42 PM.mov Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 You seem to decrease the tolerance from 15 to 11. Why, if you want to pick more colours? However, the tolerance in the menu/dialog selection seems to work differently than the Flood Select Tool: Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickbatz Posted June 9 Author Share Posted June 9 13 hours ago, thomaso said: You seem to decrease the tolerance from 15 to 11. Why, if you want to pick more colours? However, the tolerance in the menu/dialog selection seems to work differently than the Flood Select Tool: Thanks, but the tolerance slider has nothing to do with it. If I click on the darker orange lines I want to select, the marching ants go to what seems like an arbitrary selection that’s somewhere else. I’ve also tried selecting the mustardy color and moving the slider to exclude the darker orange lines, but no go. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted June 9 Share Posted June 9 23 minutes ago, nickbatz said: If I click on the darker orange lines I want to select, the marching ants go to what seems like an arbitrary selection that’s somewhere else. Can you show a screen recording of that? 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...
nickbatz Posted June 9 Author Share Posted June 9 1 hour ago, walt.farrell said: Can you show a screen recording of that? Walt, the one in my original post shows it if you zoom in. If you can't see where I clicked initially, the second time I click shows pretty clearly that I'm aiming at one of the darker orange lines and it's not cooperating. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted June 10 Share Posted June 10 Sorry; I missed that one. (But also, I don't think I ever have success trying to zoom in a video. How does one do that?) R C-R 1 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...
thomaso Posted June 10 Share Posted June 10 17 hours ago, nickbatz said: Thanks, but the tolerance slider has nothing to do with it. Do you mean in-/decreasing the tolerance does not result in a selection marquee that includes the wanted colours/tints? 17 hours ago, nickbatz said: If I click on the darker orange lines I want to select, the marching ants go to what seems like an arbitrary selection that’s somewhere else. Can you mark some related spots/areas of "arbitrary selection" on a screenshot with the corresponding moment of your video? Possibly on the attached screenshot? I see only 1 click in your video (crosshair cursor, slightly above the centre). It is at second 08. The selection marquee seems to include the darker orange and the major area of mid orange while it excludes a light orange (i.e. top right) and blue/gray/black areas for instance. Below a screenshot at 0:08 min.: Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted June 10 Share Posted June 10 8 hours ago, walt.farrell said: (But also, I don't think I ever have success trying to zoom in a video. How does one do that?) On my Mac I do not see any way to do that either. I can set it to play at my full screen size but it still does actually permit zooming in on any part of the video. walt.farrell 1 Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.5 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted June 10 Share Posted June 10 10 hours ago, walt.farrell said: I don't think I ever have success trying to zoom in a video. How does one do that? 2 hours ago, R C-R said: On my Mac I do not see any way to do that either. On mac a way would be using the zoom function via system preferences > accessibility. If setup it can be activated via keyboard shortcut. https://support.apple.com/guide/mac-help/mchlp1400/mac R C-R 1 Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickbatz Posted June 10 Author Share Posted June 10 The easiest way to see what I'm talking about is just to take a screenshot of the picture from thomaso's last post, open it in Affinity Photo (I'm using 2.5.2) and click here. I've also tried changing the color scheme of the whole snippet as well as increasing the contrast to try and get it to be more differentiated, but no go. This spans multiple files that I made from the same source, and of course rasterizing it (even though it's a raster image to start with). Just try clicking where the arrow is and you'll see what I mean - at least I'd be surprised if you didn't! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickbatz Posted June 10 Author Share Posted June 10 2 hours ago, R C-R said: On my Mac I do not see any way to do that either. I can set it to play at my full screen size but it still does actually permit zooming in on any part of the video. The easiest way is to set up zooming in Accessibility, and then you hold control and slide the mouse "wheel" to zoom. I have good eyes, but I use that feature all day long without thinking about it! Affinity Photo and I assume the other programs zooms in and out of the picture using Option + mouse wheel, but sometimes it's easier to see things on the interface if you zoom in on them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thomaso Posted June 10 Share Posted June 10 17 minutes ago, nickbatz said: Just try clicking where the arrow is and you'll see what I mean - at least I'd be surprised if you didn't! I don't see your mentioned "arbitrary selection". The selection just appears to depend on the different colours at the cursor and thus includes less or more of the lighter orange in the upper right / bottom right area. (And, as expected, too, the marquee changes with different tolerance values.) – If you get different results at these two spots can you post corresponding screenshots? Quote macOS 10.14.6 | MacBookPro Retina 15" | Eizo 27" | Affinity V1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickbatz Posted June 10 Author Share Posted June 10 thomaso, I want to select the lines like the one I pointed the light blue arrow at three posts up. They are a different color from everything else in this picture fragment. Of course the tolerance slider adjusts the tolerance, but I think if you click on any of the colors I'm pointing at, you'll see it doesn't do it. You can also try selecting other colors in the hope of reversing the selection, but that doesn't work either. There's something Affinity Photo isn't happy about, so I'll just have to brush over them manually, but it would be nice if I could just use Select Sampled Color and bring them out more in one fell swoop. Select Sampled Color is a fantastic feature in general, though - a perfect example of actual intelligence being far more useful than artificial intelligence. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted June 10 Share Posted June 10 18 minutes ago, nickbatz said: The easiest way is to set up zooming in Accessibility, and then you hold control and slide the mouse "wheel" to zoom. That works but even if I zoom in on your video I cannot see where you are clicking so it isn't very helpful. The video also shudders & at one point jumps back a bit so I'm not sure of what is going on with it. It might help if you could post an Affinity format file with just this part of the picture in it so we can try making the selection with the actual version of it instead of a frame of a video capture. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.5 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Bruce Posted June 10 Share Posted June 10 The set tolerance of 15% is perhaps too high, try 1%. Also I would try using the magic wand with a similar 1 or 2% tolerance. Quote Mac Pro (Late 2013) Mac OS 12.7.6 Affinity Designer 2.5.5 | Affinity Photo 2.5.5 | Affinity Publisher 2.5.5 | Beta versions as they appear. I have never mastered color management, period, so I cannot help with that. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickbatz Posted June 10 Author Share Posted June 10 The result is identical whether it's a new Affinity file or the screenshot, but sure. By the way, I subsequently got rid of the ghosting you see around the outside of this thing with the Clone Brush on another layer - this is just so you can see what's going on. Try and select the darker orange lines and things.afphoto Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickbatz Posted June 10 Author Share Posted June 10 1 minute ago, Old Bruce said: The set tolerance of 15% is perhaps too high, try 1%. Also I would try using the magic wand with a similar 1 or 2% tolerance. Thanks. Yes, it is set too high, and at a low tolerance the Magic Wand is better - but it still isn't doing it (I tried that before too). When I wrote above that tolerance has nothing to do with it, I just meant that it's not the issue. Of course it's the first thing you adjust when you use these features, because without that they wouldn't be any use! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted June 10 Share Posted June 10 3 minutes ago, nickbatz said: The result is identical whether it's a new Affinity file or the screenshot, but sure. FWIW, Select Sampled Color seems to behave as expected when I use it with your example file. How are you setting the sampled color, with the Color Picker or something else? Are you expecting it to be set with a click on the layer? If so, I do not think that is how it works. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.5 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nickbatz Posted June 10 Author Share Posted June 10 That is exactly how it works: you click on the color with the tool and it selects it, you adjust the tolerance, then click Apply. And Bob's your uncle. Using the Color Picker to sample the color first doesn't have any different effect. So I'm not sure what you're expecting, but I expect it to work the way I've been using it for the past 2-1/2 years! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
R C-R Posted June 10 Share Posted June 10 23 minutes ago, nickbatz said: That is exactly how it works: you click on the color with the tool and it selects it, you adjust the tolerance, then click Apply. That is not how it works on my Mac -- IOW, it does not set the sampled color. That is how the magic wand tool works but for me I have to use a color picker to set the sampled color & make it frontmost (selected) in the Color panel. Then the tolerance sets how close to the exact picked color gets selected. Just try it & see what you get. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.5 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted June 10 Share Posted June 10 26 minutes ago, R C-R said: That is not how it works on my Mac The Help says: Quote To create a pixel selection from a sampled color: Select the pixel layer containing the color to be sampled. From the Select menu, choose Select Sampled Color. Click on the color to be sampled. Adjust the settings in the dialog. Click Apply. 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...
R C-R Posted June 10 Share Posted June 10 1 minute ago, walt.farrell said: The Help says: I know what the help says. It just doesn't work that way on my Mac. Quote All 3 1.10.8, & all 3 V2.5.5 Mac apps; 2020 iMac 27"; 3.8GHz i7, Radeon Pro 5700, 32GB RAM; macOS 10.15.7 All 3 V2 apps for iPad; 6th Generation iPad 32 GB; Apple Pencil; iPadOS 15.7 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted June 10 Share Posted June 10 Here's another thing to consider. (And my apologies if this has been mentioned already...) Looking at the last image posted by @nickbatz, we can view it at this zoom level where we might want to sample the orange that I've pointed to: But let's zoom in some more (I'm pointing to about the same spot): Exactly which pixel (and thus which color) might we have clicked on when it was zoomed out further? 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...
nickbatz Posted June 10 Author Share Posted June 10 54 minutes ago, R C-R said: Just try it & see what you get. I did try it! If you set the sampled color with the Picker first, that color is what's selected when you first choose Select Sampled Color. But - on images other than this one - the color changes if you click somewhere else. 18 minutes ago, walt.farrell said: Here's another thing to consider. (And my apologies if this has been mentioned already...) It's a good thought and no one mentioned it, but the selection still goes somewhere else if you select pixels that color - and I tried zooming in to the individual pixel level and clicking exactly the right color. Who knows what's going on, but there's something about this example that stumps Select Sampled Color. And the result is the same on the file I got this one from, in which the colors are blues/light blues instead of golds/oranges (yes, I steal from myself). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
walt.farrell Posted June 10 Share Posted June 10 4 minutes ago, nickbatz said: But - on images other than this one - the color changes if you click somewhere else. That happens for me on this one, too. As far as I can see, Select Sampled Color is working fine. But I've only tested on Windows. 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...
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