Photoshop – picking a color not in your image
April 4th, 2010
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At times I want a color in Photoshop to match something else on my desktop.
An example:
In Lightroom 3 you can use a graphical identity place in place of the Adobe one. But I wanted the gray of the lightroom to match my logo.
Yes, you can take a screen shot and cut-n-paste it into an image, than use the color picker to pick the image, but there is a much more accurate and fast way — although in Mac world this is automatically done you can do the same thing in window.
- Open the application that the color you need, if you can move it to the left or right side of the image.
- Open Photoshop, now exit the maximize view (The button next to the “X” on the top right). It’s a window in window mode, denoting maximized window. If you press this and nothing seems to happen (but the icon changes to a single window), you window is no longer maximized but it’s still set to the maximum size of the screen. Just move your moues to the corner and you should get a handle.
- Either have a image open, or just create an empty file.
- Reduce the size of the Photoshop window so that the color in question is visible under your Photoshop window.
- Click inside of the Image or file that you created (don’t let go of the button).
- Drag the Eye Dropper in Photoshop, as you do the color will change in the color selection and your eye dropper remains working even if you move outside of the Photoshop window so you can pickup the color of the other application.
