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Color picker? #1
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by bjurasz
November 17, 2015 - 3:50pm

In Photoshop I’m used to being able to click anywhere on an image to pick a color, but that doesn’t seem to work here.  Suppose I want to create a gradient from one color to another color.  I want to pick those colors from the image itself (for example, removing a reflection on the side of a car by creating a gradient of two colors to hide the reflection).  How to pick those colors in Affinity Photo?  Thanks.

Bill Jurasz
Austin Texas

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by bill@billbooth.ca
November 18, 2015 - 10:12pm

Bill, it is not obvious how to use the picker, but see if this helps. Select the Colour​ tab on the right panel. There are two circles - foreground and background - with a double ended arrow. Beside that is an eye-dropper, then a small circle. So the Small circle can be dragged over your image to select a colour. Then click on the eye-dropper, select one big circle and click. This will establish say the background colour. Repeat for foreground colour. 

For the Gradient tool, selecting an end circle then doing the eye-dropper routine will establish your colour gradient. You might have to play with this for a while.

Bill Booth

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