Surprisingly enough, I just discovered this last week. I don't remember where though, but it sure beats having to Cmd-Ctrl-Shift-4 and paste in order to sample something outside Photoshop.

... like many other things within Adobe applications ... this is not a feature that functions across the suite. I find myself flipping back into Photoshop to sample a color, then back into InDesign or DreamWeaver to key those numbers in to create a custom color.

Would be nice if the Adobe suite of applications were more consistent; but then, I'm still on CS2. Perhaps CS3 has closed this loop.

Hey! I think you have something of mine! Well, or maybe Albert Einstein's.

Seriously though. Thanks for the tip. I remember seeing this feature in Microsoft's Design and wishing it was available in Photoshop. It was the only thing happening there that I wished I would see in an Adobe product. In fact the entire line of Microsoft's expression suite stinks. They will NEVER catch up to Adobe in being able to give designers tools that are actually productive and useful. I'm excited to go try it out!

“Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.” - Albert Einstein

i use this

http://wafflesoftware.net/hexpicker/

andrew harrison
http://andrew.harrison.org