Eyedropper tool used outside of Photoshop
The eyedropper tool enables you to sample color from anywhere on your computer screen. If you can see the color, you can grab the color.
For years I’ve worked with a great little application called pixie which has its own little eye dropper tool, that does the trick, but its another application to load on top of the ram hungry photoshop!
Then one day i discovered that this is just as easy to perform from within photoshop if you have the know how.
eye dropper sampling page
Today i’m going to share that tip with you.
Firstly the letter I on your keyboard is the standard shortcut key to select the Eyedropper tool. Once selected then click-and-hold inside your document – you will see an eyedropper icon at this point.
In our screenshot example we are currently sampling the white page
Now for the eye dropper tip you need to remember:
While holding your left button on the mouse, drag your eyedropper outside the document window and onto the object you’d like to sample.
Only release your mouse button when you are clear you are sampling the correct colour
Take a look at your Photoshop color selecter and you should see your new color ready to go.
In the screenshot example we are selecting the blue from the PS icon on our toolbar (outside of the Photoshop Application)
eyedropper selecting the blue from the PS icon
