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.
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good question. this will be a blog post if we find a solution. i would need it too! maybe we can ask Hagen to give it a whirl...
Here is a plug-in utility called ColorZilla.
ColorZilla is an extension for Mozilla Firefox and the Mozilla Suite.
It assists web developers and graphic designers with color related tasks - both basic and advanced.
With ColorZilla you can get a color reading from any point in your browser, quickly adjust this color and paste it into another program. You can Zoom the page you are viewing and measure distances between any two points on the page. The built-in palette browser allows choosing colors from pre-defined color sets, saving the most used colors in custom palettes. DOM spying features allow getting various information about DOM elements quickly and easily. And there's more...
Here is the link: http://www.iosart.com/firefox/colorzilla/
This exists since PS7: Select the eyedropper tool { 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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As for pasting screenshots, be aware that color management might change the values: I've seen that it might be good to apply your monitor profile to the file, then convert to your working profile (that should be either sRGB or Adobe RGB.
I'll double check about that last past.
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sPECtre wrote:
wow! now that i've tried it swear i've done it before. it's really cool! thanks!
It's a pleasure!
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Thank you all!
Really nifty thing in OSX! (Or Panther at least, I've not used previous versions so I'm not sure.) In Applications -> Utilities, there's the digital color meter. It's an on-screen color meter, but it only shows things in RGB. Still a nifty utility.
hi all
Saw you guys talking about firefox before.
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This is really interesting, looks like a graph over time of the number of times " firefox " has been mentioned, it does this by graphing the results in google yahoo etc, very interesting, you can see just how popular firefox is becoming
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