New feature request for XXP -average color sampling

I've been working with WD 6, loving it, but there's a feature both WD and XXP need, IMO, if you're going to match colors quickly between a placed bitmap and a shape.

Average color sampling option with the eyedropper.

Xara's eyedropper samples directly to the pixel under the cursor, but JPEGs and even good PNGs and TIFFs have noise and it therefore requires both a lot of tries and some estimation to apply for example, the color of a logo in a photo to a shape on the page. One pixel to the left or right, and you don't have an invisibly perfect match.

Photoshop and CorelDRAW X5 both offer point, 3x3, and 5x5 average sample area with their eyedropper tools; it's a very useful feature for matching color between noisy photos and shapes.

Consider this, please next version? It would take up very little UI space as a drop-down on the Infobar, or offer it as an option to manually put it up from the Button Palette?

TIA,

Gary

That would be a welcome addition to Xtreme. :)

+1

+1

+1 too

Yes please.
Saludos,
Bob.

+1 - Agreed - Nice idea Gary

Yes as well! There used to be a 3 party eye dropper which I used to use although with Xara a few moons ago which worked well as you could vary the pixels under the dropper as you can in PS.

+1 for me sounds like a nice improvement.
Peter

+1 from me as well! it would be a definite time saver!

Used to it from Sony Vegas Pro when doing color correction stuff - +1!

+ 1 - that would be very useful

You can activate averaging at least in the normal Eyedropper tool (didn't try with the levels tool "Grey point" etc.) by setting the following registry key to a non-zero value:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Xara\XtremePro\6.1\Opti ons\Rendering\EyeDropperAverage

That doesn't give you a marquee selection or so to work with, but at least seems to use a few pixels around the mouse cursor. Not too useful, but maybe a start :)