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Color picker (eyedropper) doesn't work
Trying to pick a shape's border color to match other on-screen elements. The eyedropper only works in the dialog box. Once outside, the chosen color is black no matter what the eyedropper is over....
Here is a related problem concerning the colour picker.
I created a box and filled it using a custom colour (#D40511 - RGB 212,5,17)
I then checked the colour using the picker and it tells me that the colour is now #D40612 - RGB 255,6,18!
(please see a video illustrating this problem) https://vimeo.com/311871468
This raises several serious questions:
- Which is the correct colour?
- How do I check that a colour is accurate (my client is extremely obsessed with the correct use of their colours
- How can I be confident that the work I am doing is not 'changing' without my knowledge?
Hi Martin,
Thanks for sharing that video and example. I tested the same scenario and color options and found that when I went back to look at it with the eyedropper, it showed RGB 212, 6, 18. Still different than the original but much closer than you saw.
I'm sharing an example of this with my team so that we can investigate further!
In the meantime, I did notice that if I went to one of the objects to check the color fill within the fill window and that still showed the correct color, I had set it as.
I'll keep you posted here on what I hear from my team!
