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

[Chris P. Bacon]

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?

[Doug A Roberts]

It shouldn't. Are you finding that it does?

[Chris P. Bacon]

It does unfortunately, I tested it with the color of the lake (that's a uniform color fill that I use as text background).

It would be nice if it wouldn't, but I guess the best solution is to disable the color overlay of the isolation mode.

How do I disable it?

[Doug A Roberts]

Isolation mode seems to have no effect on the eyedropper selection, unless we're talking about different things:

[Chris P. Bacon]

For me it picks different colors.

[Doug A Roberts]

For a placed image it will, unless the image is embedded, because it's selecting from the on-screen preview, not the image itself.

[Chris P. Bacon]

I need my images linked, so that I can edit them in all apps.

Can I have them embedded and still linked?

[Chris P. Bacon]

But it shouldn't, right?

No eyedropper should account for interface dimmings and overlays, at least not on the artboard.

[Doug A Roberts]

Whether it should or not is a matter for the developers. This is what it does.

[Chris P. Bacon]

There is no justification for the eyedropper to account for interface dimming, unless it's not possible to eliminate it.

[Doug A Roberts]

I have no interest in justifying it. Join prerelease and ask the developers, or start a uservoice post.

[Chris P. Bacon]

I already voted, it has fourty-something votes.

[Doug A Roberts]

That request has nothing to do with the eyedropper. It might resolve this particular situation, but perhaps it would be better to be more specific.

[Chris P. Bacon]

This is 9 years ago:

Illustrator isolation mode, why does it have to dim all other graphics? : graphic_design (reddit.com...

[Chris P. Bacon]

42 votes for it since 2017

Dim Control In Isolation Mode – Adobe Illustrator (uservoice.com)

[Mike_Gondek]

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.