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How to: Use your Photoshop eyedropper outside of Photoshop
  1. Select the eyedropper tool.
  2. Hold down the alt key (pc) (should be the command tool on the mac but haven't checked this yet).
  3. Click somewhere on an open file in Photoshop - but do not release the mouse button or the alt button.
  4. Move your mouse (with the mouse and alt button still depressed) over to the spot you want to sample. As you drag your mouse you will see the foreground swatch in Photoshop keep changing to pick up the colors you are mousing over.

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Posted at 4:05 PM.
3 Comments:

DevDad said...
Awesome tip. It is really annoying to have to take a screen shot or copy images to select colors.

- Mike
4:43 PM  


Alex said...
On my machine, a mac, I'm able just to select the eyedropper tool, click and hold on my document and without releasing mouse around anywhere and be able to select that color. No command key needed.
4:58 PM  


Keith said...
Ah! That's great!
3:11 PM  


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