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Eyedropper icon detects wrong color - Nos402 - 04-13-2020
Okay this is really weird and maybe I just don't understand how something works. So the way I've been "sampling" a color, is to bring up the color picker window, clicking the eyedropper icon, and clicking the color. When I do it this way, it samples the wrong color. The color it detects is not correct.
However, when using Fill, or a brush, holding CTRL turns it into an eyedropper. When I do it THIS way, it samples the CORRECT color and can fill it or paint it. So the ACTUAL color I'm trying to use is #2f00d3 but if I click the eyedropper ICON in the "Change Foreground Color" window it detects it as #0030d5 which is the wrong color. So is there an issue with the Eyedropper icon in the Change Color window or do I just not understand something here? Should the Ctrl-click detect the same color as the Eyedropper icon in the Change Color window?
RE: Eyedropper icon detects wrong color - rich2005 - 04-13-2020
I can not reproduce that, but there are these cases:
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/issues/4382 monitor profile effect
https://gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gimp/issues/2401 oldish with a recent addition, color picker picks invisible layer color.
You could post a screenshot of the whole interface, layers / tools etc or an example xcf image - might give a clue.
RE: Eyedropper icon detects wrong color - Ofnuts - 04-13-2020
Is the "Sample merged" option of the colot picker checked? When it is so, the CP picks the color of the composite image, other wise it picke the color of the active layer.