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Participant
June 15, 2022
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P: Color Sampler Eye dropper tool to place interrogation point for RGB readout while adjusting.

  • June 15, 2022
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I'd love if Lightroom's eye dropper tool could function like photoshop's info panel to check RGB levels. where you drop a marker on a spot on the photo and then the readings are shown from the same spot. It would help A LOT so we can check values and manipulate the settings to get our numbers where we want them, instead of having to look for the same spot over and over again after we move the mouse to change anything.

 

please have this in lightroom as soon as possible please! 

9 replies

Known Participant
March 31, 2025

It's already in Camera Raw! Just not in Lightroom Classic, Please Adobe; you already did the work, just port it over!

Inspiring
February 15, 2024

I put in the request yesterday, so we'll see what happens THIS time.

Inspiring
February 14, 2024

ACR has "Color Sampler Overlay" that is very useful when checking or comparing color between images.

Will this tool be implemented in Lightroom Classic soon?

Inspiring
February 14, 2024

I haven't found any topics for "Color Sampler Overlay" in the Lightroom forums, so...

 

BEFORE I do something dumb like ask for the feature, is there a "Color Sampler Overlay" in Lightroom Classic now that I've missed?  Other than Bridge's much better file batch renaming (which has been being requested for at least a decade with no success), I rarely find anything useful in Bridge/ACR that I'm missing in Lightroom, but ACR now has one and it's very useful when trying to match the colors between the original RAW file, and what cometimes comes back from Topaz Photo AI. 

Normally, they're not different enough to be a visible problem, but this morning I got an image back that, even after synching the two, is visible different.   To the point that it was worth opening the images in ACR and displaying the Color samplers to see if I could improve the color mismatch...

So, is there the equivalent tool in Lightroom Classic that I've just missed, or is it something that needs to be requested?

Rob_Cullen
Community Expert
Community Expert
February 14, 2024

No.  In LrC you only have a 'real-time' display of RGB colours under the Histogram.

Stupid answer- Pen and paper to record the numbers?

Submit a post as an 'Idea'.

 

Regards. My System: Windows-11, Lightroom-Classic 15.0, Photoshop 27.0, ACR 18.0, Lightroom 9.0, Lr-iOS 10.4.0, Bridge 16.0 .
Inspiring
February 14, 2024

OK, since it is missing, I'll put in a request...  Just out of curiosity, does Adobe EVER actually USE any of the ideas?  'Cause so far, after a LOT of years, I see a LOT of things that just keep circling around in here and never get implemented, no matter how simple they should be.

Participant
May 30, 2023

Hallo, ich warte schon seit Jahren darauf, dass es in Lightroom möglich sein wird, Farbaufnehmer Messpunkte in zu setzen! Die letze CameraRAW Version bietet ja die Möglichkeit diese bei der Entwicklung von RAWs zu setzen und ich frage mich, weshalb dies in Photoshop funktioniert aber einfach bei Lightroom nicht möglich ist??? Ohne diese Möglichkeit sind die Bearbeitungsmöglichkeiten doch recht eingeschränkt, zumal wenn man bspw. eine ungleichmäßig ausgeleuchtete Wand homogen einstellen mag! Bitte um Abhilfe oder stelle ich mich nur zu blöd an und finde diese verborgene Funktion nicht?

JustShootit
Participant
April 26, 2023

Capture One has a feature called Color Readout that lets you put a little "sticky note" on any point on the image - the sticky note shows the red, green, blue, and luminosity values for that point.  To my knowledge, LRC only has the RGB values under the cursor as you move it - it doesn't show the luminosity channel nor does it have anything like the Color Readout.  These tools are really useful for determining what lighting changes need to be made and I'd like to see them added to LRC.

 

Thanks

TheDigitalDog
Inspiring
July 3, 2022

Upvoted. Better still, do it because it is doable in Camera Raw, allow the samples to 'stick' if moving from one product to the other.

Author “Color Management for Photographers" & "Photoshop CC Color Management/pluralsight"
C.Cella
Inspiring
July 3, 2022

@Rikk Flohr: Photography 

 

Ok, I didn't find this when I posted my own FR.

 

Can you perhaps edit the title of this feature request, it's not that clear.

 

 

 

It is very obscure

C.Cella
Inspiring
July 3, 2022

I suggest to implement in Lightroom the Color Sampler like we have it in ACR...or even better like in Photoshop.

 

The Color Sampler is an indispensable and vital tool especially when soft proofing.

 

When we print we use it extensively in Photoshop.

It would be very useful to have as well in Lr.