FineFindus
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6 months ago Thanks for the suggestion. Unfortunately, this is not directly achievable, since the color picking process is not controlled by the application, but by the desktop. While some desktops have special mechanisms to allow customization of the color picking appearance, this only be possible to be implemented on a case-by-case basis, e.g. it would not be possible in GNOME and would be far out of scope.
stpnwf
Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe. I get frustrated when I want to pick the color of an image with multiple pixels of slightly different colors. And any one individual pixel I pick is not representative on the color my eyes see from looking at the image.
Describe the solution you'd like I would like to be able to increase the picker sample size, similarly to the Digital Color Meter app on macOS, where the user is able to change the size of the aperture . The output is a mix of all the colors in the aperture.
Some examples that came to mind of situations where this would be useful:
Possible Solutions
Solution 1:
In Settings, user defines the size of an alternative aperture size. When picking a color, holding a key, such as Alt, would increase the aperture size to the alternate aperture size. Output is a mix of all the colors in the aperture.
I think this would create a problem with the user not knowing exactly which pixels are selected
Solution 2:
In Settings user defines the size of an alternative aperture size (or is adjusted by some sort of slider at the bottom of Eyedropper window). I propose the picker is replaced by how this other app does it. Output is a mix of all the colors in the aperture.
This would solve the problem present in the first solution, but may be harder to implement.