Color Sampler Tool in Lightroom.....................?

[Dinarius]

..........I'm guessing not, and if not, why not?

If it's good enough for ACR, then why not LR?

I use it all the time in ACR and I'd love to use LR, but without a Color Sampler Tool it's not for me.

And while I'm on the subject, I know that the % readouts are more accurate and the 0-255 are a throwback to 8bit days, but I'd like the option to switch between the two.

But, the Color Sampler Tool is the dealbreaker, alas.

D.

[digitaldog]

+1, I’d love to have this functionality.

As for percentage, I have zero issue with it. Its just a different scale. If you are used to miles per hour, kilometers per hour seems odd (or vise versa). In fact, 0-255 is based on a 8-bit per color encoding which we don’t use in these products. How about those that love CMYK values. Again, 0-100 has nothing to do with the data but those people are used to this. I think for new users, 0-100% is more intuitive.

What bugs me is the 0-100% isn’t based on the encoding color space I’ll use. Its Melissa RGB. I can live with the current scale. I’d really like it based on something I am going to use and could select (and tie that to the Histogram too).

[Dinarius]

Glad someone agrees with me on the lack of a Color Sampler Tool - rocket science it ain't. And if it was deemed relevant in ACR........!

Can't help feeling that when you strip away the (outstanding) image management/cataloging features of LR, you are left with an image editing tool that is more Prosumer than Pro.

ACR is better IMHO. (ducks & covers!  )

D.

[digitaldog]

ACR is better IMHO. (ducks & covers!  )

There’s quite useful functionality in LR that ACR lacks too (to be fair). No history, no Virtual copies to name two. ACR forces you into only four possible encoding color spaces, LR lets you use any.

[eliedinur]

What bugs me is the 0-100% isn’t based on the encoding color space I’ll use. Its Melissa RGB. I can live with the current scale. I’d really like it based on something I am going to use and could select (and tie that to the Histogram too).

Yeh, it seems to me that since the histogram and numeric data are already being gamma corrected it wouldn't be hard to also convert it to, say, a choice between sRGB or Adobe RGB.