Eyedropper pick up the wrong color

Hello,

I was having this problem also almost for a year... So I just fix it with changing the option in the "Optimize" from PNG 32 Bit to PNG 24 Bit. If it helps.

FW CS6 / Macbook Air - El Capitan

I have a similar problem with Adobe FW CS5.5 since updating Yosemite to El Capitan. The eye dropper does not work at all now, but always picks 000000 = Black.

Hi everyone,

Sooooo this is one year later, but I have found a solution that just worked! If your colour picker is picking the colour too dark, try this:

1. Choose your eye-dropper/colour picker

2. Click on the dropdown next to the tool icon

3. Click RESET TOOL

This just worked for me.

Hope it helps you guys!

Kind regards

This bug showed up in CS6 and happens when you activate the eyedropper by clicking on the color. If you use the actual eye dropper tool by clicking on it first, it does not happen. The drawback to this is that by clicking on the color box to activate the eyedropper, you used to be able to pull colors from off canvas. That is not the case if you click the eyedropper tool first. Adobe is breaking a lot of efficiencies. It's a bummer.

Hey i have the same problem! Here is the way I've heard from my friend:

First, switch to eyedrop tool (press i - for shortcut).

Then right click to select "point sample" to set the selection exactly on the area you clicked.

It works for me, and I hope it also does for you.

Goodluck!

Interesting discussion happening here, and I ran with some of it myself. Here's what's working at the moment:

Go to system preferences > display

Choose the color tab.

Change from "Thunderbolt Display" (or whatever it's defaulted to) and choose "sRGB IEC61966-2.1"

Close it and reopen fireworks.

Seemed to work for me, I hope it works for others. And I hope Adobe shows some more support for great products like Fireworks.

Actually, for me this even happen when I open a file. I have a psd from a client that, when I open it in Fireworks side by side with opening it in Photoshop, the colors are different. If I pick colors from the psd, they appear in FW as they appear in the file when I open it in FW. Also, screenshots "change color" when I open or paste them in Fireworks...

Incidentally, in Fireworks, the Paste Attributes command might serve as a workaround to this problem in some situations (e.g., in the example at the start of this discussion).

To see how color management might explain the shift from Color 1 to Color 2 in your graphic, consider the following experiment.

Your original screenshot uses the icc profile "Color LCD", which is your monitor's display profile. This is a small-gamut color space and requires no actual color management because the image and the display occupy the same color space.

According to my online source, untagged images within Mac OS 10.8 are treated as if they have an sRGB profile, so I'm going to change the attached profile of the image to "sRGB IEC61966-2.1"—as if it were an untagged image. I want to preserve the image appearance, though, so I'll use Photoshop's Convert to Profile, which also adjusts the numerical data contained within the PNG file.

The image looks the same, but the color space in which its defined is now larger because it's in sRGB IEC61966-2.1 instead of Color LCD.

NOTE: The graphic previews in this forum to do not include icc profiles, and some browsers do not support color management. Therefore, to normalize the appearance of all the images in this post, I reconverted the above image to Color LCD.

Now I'm going to pretend that the image is untagged or tagged incorrectly and assign it the original Color LCD display profile. Remember, the image's numerical values were changed previously, so even though I'm simply attaching a color profile here, it's not going to look the same.

As you can see, the colors have become significantly duller. Color 1 in this graphic now strongly resembles Color 2 in the original graphic.

I don't know whether (or how) this experiment corresponds to what's happening in Fireworks CS6 in Mac's Mountain Lion OS, but somewhere in the process of sampling color with the eyedropper tool and applying that color to an object, it's possible that a color translation like the above might be occurring.

Make sure that Snap to Web Safe is turned off.