Eyedropper outside PhotoShop
Ivan | Wed, 2004-12-22 00:55
If you read the forum, you might already know this tip. Thanks Gloria and sPECtre for the quick solution!
Is there a way in photoshop to have the eyedropper work on windows OTHER than photoshop windows? Say I wanted it to set the background color to something in a Firefox window, can I do that?
I know I can just take a screengrab and paste down in a new photoshop window, but that seems kinda clunky.
This exists since PS7: Select the eyedropper tool (Shortcut: "I")
Click and drag from your image to where you want to sample the color.
So you click in your image, and hold the mouse button until you sample the area you want, outside of the document window/Photoshop's UI...
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There is also an extension for Firefox called ColorZilla that you can install that will give you an eyedropper in Firefox which will give you the hex/RGB values of any color on a web page (image or html).
You can download/install ColorZilla here .
This works great when you're working in an RGB document, but not in CMYK.
Not sure where/who to send this to but I just wanted to comment about the snowflakes you have going on here. Sure the png snow flake gently falling look great in Firefox, but the "blocks" rapidly ascending look rather odd in IE 6.
In the utilities folder is an app called "Digital Color Meter" which does the same thing.