Skin tone tool: selected color does not match
I have been trying to use the skin tone tool to even out some colors. Oddly enough, when I use the color selection tool (the dropper), the color that is being selected does not correspond at all to what I see on screen. To make it even more odd, clicking multiple times on the same spot sometime *does* result in the correct color being selected.
The color I'm trying to select:
The color that is being selected when I click on this spot with the dropper tool:
What is going on? As you can see in this image, the darkest and the brightest spots have quite the contrast, but clicking on either of them always selects the same brown tone as seen above.
The same thing happens with the advanced color editor tool. I'm confused.
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Could it be the colour correction and skin tone pickers average an area of several pixels to get a colour range that does not fluctuate too strongly when going over individual pixels with very different colours? Otherwise (ISO) noise or dither-like patterns could result in a colour range selection that is no where near what the patch/area of colour looks like (when zoomed out a little).
It would be nice if the picker outlined which pixels it samples.The colour readout pins have an of-by-one error by the way. The shown values are from the pixel one right + one down.
The pixel it points at, when hoovering over it with the select tool (mouse cursor icon) shows a value of:
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Ah yes, the many quirks of C1.
>Have you tried zooming to 100% or more in order to better see what the selected point pixels look like?
Yes, as you can see on the 1st screenshot. It's zoomed in to 200%.I think Propheticus might be right, it seems logical when zoomed out, however when zoomed in why would I not be able to select the very color that I'm clicking on? It is weird to select a bright patch of colors and what it actually selects is a far darker color.
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