I thought Inkscape wasn't working as it should, but now think it must be some setting that I don't have set correctly. When I select a colour, it immediately fills the entire selection. Is there a way I can just select a colour without the autofill (I think like in most other art applications).
I am trying the eyedropper tool instead of the Select Same --> Fill Color as that isn't doing what I need. I'm trying to separate colours and unfortunately when I do it this way, the colour I'm trying to separate seems to be a full layer under every other colour when ungrouped which I can't use. So was trying to take the colour from a grouped image.
I hope that makes sense. What I'm doing should be fairly straight forward I think.
Thanks to anyone that can tell me what I'm doing wrong.
I am not sure if you are using the function correctly. Actually, you first select your object and then the colors for fill and stroke, whether from the swatches or eyedropper etc. However, you should pay attention to what is selected - this is shown in the “Status Bar” - because a group can have completely different properties than its content. Perhaps you should also take the precaution of resetting Inkscape‘s preferences if you have updated Inkscape lately.
Maybe I'm not, that's a possibility, for example you can see what I mean in the two screen shots below, I'm trying to select the orange colour with the eyedropper tool. In the first screen shot you can see I'm hovering over the orange, then when I click (not holding any keys or anything), the entire page / selection goes the colour that I select.
Maybe I'm stupid and missing how it works, I just want to select that colour and not fill anything?
You can probably see I'm separating colours above to make screens for screening printing. The problem is if I Select Same --> Colour it works as it should, however it doesn't just take the visible orange which is what I need, the person that created the art has made the entire orange as the base under the other colours, which doesn't work. I can show you what I mean if that doesn't make sense.
I wouldn't go so far as that, but maybe you misunderstood how the tool works. Clicking the eyedropper collects colour from the pixels beneath and applies them to the current selection. In your first screenshot, there's a blue dashed line indicating some selected objects. I'm guessing this is a group. When you used the dropper to select orange pixels, this fill colour was applied to the group and the members of the group, creating the orange expanse in your second screenshot.
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Hello,
I thought Inkscape wasn't working as it should, but now think it must be some setting that I don't have set correctly. When I select a colour, it immediately fills the entire selection. Is there a way I can just select a colour without the autofill (I think like in most other art applications).
I am trying the eyedropper tool instead of the Select Same --> Fill Color as that isn't doing what I need. I'm trying to separate colours and unfortunately when I do it this way, the colour I'm trying to separate seems to be a full layer under every other colour when ungrouped which I can't use. So was trying to take the colour from a grouped image.
I hope that makes sense. What I'm doing should be fairly straight forward I think.
Thanks to anyone that can tell me what I'm doing wrong.
Craig
I am not sure if you are using the function correctly. Actually, you first select your object and then the colors for fill and stroke, whether from the swatches or eyedropper etc. However, you should pay attention to what is selected - this is shown in the “Status Bar” - because a group can have completely different properties than its content. Perhaps you should also take the precaution of resetting Inkscape‘s preferences if you have updated Inkscape lately.
Maybe I'm not, that's a possibility, for example you can see what I mean in the two screen shots below, I'm trying to select the orange colour with the eyedropper tool. In the first screen shot you can see I'm hovering over the orange, then when I click (not holding any keys or anything), the entire page / selection goes the colour that I select.
Maybe I'm stupid and missing how it works, I just want to select that colour and not fill anything?
You can probably see I'm separating colours above to make screens for screening printing. The problem is if I Select Same --> Colour it works as it should, however it doesn't just take the visible orange which is what I need, the person that created the art has made the entire orange as the base under the other colours, which doesn't work. I can show you what I mean if that doesn't make sense.
Thanks again
Craig
I can‘t see what object/element/part you have selected to add/change color to. As I said: select explicit object first - then adjust color.
I wouldn't go so far as that, but maybe you misunderstood how the tool works. Clicking the eyedropper collects colour from the pixels beneath and applies them to the current selection. In your first screenshot, there's a blue dashed line indicating some selected objects. I'm guessing this is a group. When you used the dropper to select orange pixels, this fill colour was applied to the group and the members of the group, creating the orange expanse in your second screenshot.
Your selections need to be more selective.