Filmic

[Stuntkoala (Simon Storl-Schulke)]

I noticed this too. it’s also not too good for Studio Lights -
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Blender 2.8 wrong colors

Thank you for your insight! Since I now know that color pickers use filmic as View Transform, I played around with it a little longer. Apparently only colors that will actually be rendered are affected by it (not for example the theme editor). Maybe I was too fast to judge - having the color picker represent the transformed colors actually isn’t too bad since for example it allows you to see the correct desaturation of colors with values > 1.0 realistically. It’s just confusing when using it the…

corresponding Devtalk thread: https://devtalk.blender.org/t/workbench-engine-filmic/5278

Apparently it’s not an oversight: https://developer.blender.org/D3569