Lockable Color Picker

LZ1 · October 11, 2016, 10:17pm

I like this new feature.
But it would be great if we can see Lab and HSV values
(Now it is RGB only).
What do you think?

heckflosse · October 11, 2016, 10:30pm

Shift click on it to switch between RGB, Lab and HSV

Claes · October 12, 2016, 8:16am

Works beautifully. Thank you!

kazah7 · October 12, 2016, 5:21pm

Thanks for this nice feature! Is it possible to temporary save or freeze values from a certain picker? Once again, very elegant work!

Claes · October 12, 2016, 5:33pm

@kazah7
Use screen dump?

Hombre · October 12, 2016, 6:53pm

What’s the use case ?

LZ1 · October 12, 2016, 8:24pm

Thank you!

Jossie · October 13, 2016, 7:24am

Hello,

having just upgraded to Win-version 4.2.1234 I am looking for the lockable colour picker but cannot find it. Rawpedia does not give any information on it either. Please give me a hint.

Hermann-Josef

paperdigits · October 13, 2016, 7:41am

The github issue suggest that you right click while in the preview area.

Claes · October 13, 2016, 7:58am

Hint @Jossie: 4.2.1291

kazah7 · October 13, 2016, 8:44am

In RT I can’t compare two different pictures side by side, or to do sort of “split screen”. I must go back and forth, and if a photo shoot is long, sometimes it’s tiring. I am not able to copy values from a certain area ( let’s say – skin tones ), I must either memorize it or write it down. It would be cool if I could temporary save/freeze those as a reference point so I don’t have to process pictures by eye only. This sort of thing is useful in maintaining balanced skin tones across the whole photo session.

Jossie · October 13, 2016, 10:47am

@Claes
I only have the icon with the pipette in the top row of the editor window. I am missing the pipette with the three lines, which presumably is the lockable color picker???

Hermann-Josef

Claes · October 13, 2016, 11:19am

Yes, it is the one with the three lines (a.k.a. the hamburger symbol).
Note that I am using RT v.4.2.1291 in Windows.

Morgan_Hardwood · October 13, 2016, 11:33am

It’s not in 4.2.1234 (which is a Gtk3 build). Get a newer build from here.

Jossie · October 13, 2016, 2:38pm

Thanks a lot. That explains it.
Hermann-Josef

Claes · October 13, 2016, 3:56pm

So you mean that you missed my friendly hint, above???

Jossie · October 13, 2016, 4:33pm

Sorry, yes – I missed that! And not only once, but twice

Hermann-Josef

Janne · October 13, 2016, 10:04pm

Thanks guys for this tool! It is great.

Hombre · October 13, 2016, 10:33pm

Hmm, keeping the value across different image (color pickers are deleted when you open a new image, as you’ve noticed) is not that easy if we want to make it user friendly. You won’t have different images displayed at the same time in an editor, but what would be easier is to assign a saved color to a picker in a different image. Can you open a new issue in GitHub (if you have an account) ?

heckflosse · October 13, 2016, 10:41pm

Using Multiple Editor Tabs Mode (METM) pickers are not deleted when you open a new image.