Mac color picker
So slightly different circumstances, but too close to think they're not connected. I was using one as a source for the other, and the source was a JPEG, the other a PSD. The other times, I have had the eyedropper selected, and two documents open, only one with multiple layers, both tabbed to the App frame, but arranged vertically. So I selected color with the eyedropper from one-it worked, then the other-it failed and hung PS. I can't replicate the problem with your steps-tried twice, but then I went the step further to see what would happen if I used the eyedropper tool-would that cause the PS hang I've experienced - twice earlier today, and a couple of times the day before. And mine is the eyedropper, not the Color Picker itself. It's not exactly the same-that is, with identical steps.
Okay, this seems directly related to a bug I just found recently. Since File A and File B can be any two files I didn't think you'd need screenshots of that, but let me know if you do and I can screenshot play by play. I've attached a screenshot of the activity monitor, if this helps, to show what happens with the CPU when this happens.
Regardless, if I follow these steps it puts Photoshop in an unresponsive state. I'm not sure if the fact of having zoomed in a couple of times on both files contributes to this or the fact that file #1 is in an unsaved state at the time, or maybe a combination of both?
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you see the little asterisk)ĥ) Zoom in a couple of times on the second file alsoĦ) Move the second file out so that it is un-docked and free floating to the side of the main Photoshop applicationħ) Take the color picker and sample a color from this second file And you have to do these steps exactly:ġ) Have a photoshop file with at least 2 layers open and docked to the main app's layout.Ģ) Zoom in a couple of times on the file from #1ģ) Also in this same file from #1, change something and leave it in the "unsaved" state (i.e. I experimented and size or number of layers does not factor into it. Doing the following, however, does indeed make it happen every time: Just using the color picker did not do the trick. Is there a separate bug fix I need to download/install?īut I did figure out the steps to replicate this. If you were to create the color in code, you would use + for values in the Generic RGB color space or + for values in the sRGB color space.I guess I have the fix? I do not see any new updates in the Creative Cloud updates list. Or sample from an image file with an embedded color profile as displayed by an app which properly handles that (Preview will do), and then convert to a specific color profile. Once you've confirmed that, you need to switch the color picker to the desired color profile before entering values. You can open Display Calibrator from System Preferences > Displays > Color > Calibrate.) (You both should also calibrate your display's color profile using Display Calibrator or dedicated hardware. Also, if they are giving you image files to work from, those need to have an embedded color profile so that you can be sure they display (nearly) the same on your screen as they do on theirs. If they aren't color-profile-savvy, they may have expressed them in their personal screen's device profile, which is basically useless. You need to check with your designer to find out what color profile they are expressing the colors in. For what it's worth, your last screenshot as shown on my screen and sampled with the eyedropper shows that the outer color is nearly 217,114,62 in the Generic RGB color profile while the inner color is nearly 217,114,62 in the sRGB color profile. Instead, it reinterprets them in the new profile. I suspect that clicking in the hex field switches the color profile to sRGB because that's the color profile of web colors but, on the theory that you want to use the sliders and text fields to specify a color in that profile, it doesn't convert the current values. The gear icon next to the pop-up menu showing "RGB" in your screenshots both shows you the color profile for the values shown by the sliders and text fields and lets you change the profile (thus converting the values). This will be different from a calibrated color profile like sRGB or generic. When you use the eyedropper in the color picker to sample a color from the screen, you get the values in the device color profile. You would need to know in which color profile that was expressed. "RGB 217,114,62" does not adequately specify a color. You (and possibly your designer) need to familiarize yourself with color profiles.