Does the color picker account for the isolation mode color overlay?

Question

When I use the color picker tool to select a color for my selected text, there is a "faded" overlay on the picture, because selecting my text brings me into isolation mode because my text is in a group because it's created with envelope distort, and isolation mode has a color overlay on the image.

Does the color picker tool account for the isolation color overlay or doesn't?

If it does, then I am not picking the correct color (1) for my text (2).

And if it does, how do I pick the correct color?

Do I need to pick the color first and then enter isolation mode?

Mike_Gondek10189183 · Answer

Yes do not isolate if you want a closer color.

If you are really looking for 100% accurate color then sample in photoshop with a 1-pixel eyedropper.

For example fill a photoshop.PSD in CMYK mode with 50CMY. Place in Illustrator document color mode of CMYK and sample, you will get a different color. This is very important if you have for example an illustrator vector fill touching that color in a placed image.

In older versions of Illustrator shift eyedropper acted differently to sample without RGB conversion, but they changed that about 3 years ago, and holding down shift does not make a difference anymore.

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