Picking colours outside VectorStyler
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Picking colours outside VectorStyler from web browser or pdf documents
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This is a cool feature in Affinity products, along with a circular magnifying glass to pinpoint the colour. I use dual screens so can have my source images on a different screen and pick colours at will. Would be a great addition to VS.
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@Baz101 Yes, this has been requested some time ago. I will try to find a solution.
The problem is that sampling the screen outside of the VectorStyler window requires some form of user notification and acceptance (screen recording), which is a bit problematic
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Affinity can only export in .afpalette format. Useless outside Affinity. Very useful in VerctorStyler, although the users have to allow access to screen recording.
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I realise that many VS users will be on a Mac, but if you are a Windows user, it may be beneficial to install 'Microsoft PowerToys' which enables quite a few utilities to extend the windows experience for productivity. The color picker utility works briliantly, and allows you to pick colours from any source. I also find the file explorer add-ons indispensible (svg previews) as well as some quick batch renaming and resizing. Not everyone's cup of tea, but it may be useful to some
Link to the documentation: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/powertoys/
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MS PowerToys is a must for all Windows users. You can enable/disable whichever tools you need or don't need and all is highly customizeable. It is easy to use, imo.
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On macOS the only workaround is picking the color with the build in color picker and paste the color code using command+v
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Other apps on macOS, as the free version of ColorSlurp are working too for picking the color and paste the color code using command+v.
