Grab color from anywhere on your screen
elbandido (128 points) | Wed, 2007-10-03 15:04Use the Eye Dropper tool to sample any color on your screen by clicking and dragging from your document to anywhere on your screen, even outside of Photoshop.
“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
“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
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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.
“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
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
“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've always loved this quote. I found it in a book called "Thinkertoys" and have tried to share it as much as I could (partly because I suck at math and it was satisfying to see that the greatest mathematician ever revered imagination as more important than knowledge).
“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
“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
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