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You can use the Eyedropper tool to sample a color from a photograph, or something else on your screen, such as a website.
1) Select the Eyedropper tool.
2) Position the Eyedropper tool cursor on your photograph over the color that you want to select.
• To change the foreground color, click.
• To change the background color, press and hold Alt, and click.
You may want to select a color from something on your screen besides a photograph open in Photoshop Elements.
For example, let's say there's a photograph of a sari on a website.
You want to use some of the colors on the sari for text on your photograph.
Let's say you want to use the plum from the mother's sari, and the cyan from the girl's sari.
Select the Eyedropper tool, and do the following.
You have two windows open—Photoshop Elements—and a website with the above photograph.
1) Position the Eyedropper tool cursor anywhere in the Photoshop Elements window.
2) Click and hold the mouse button.
3) Position the cursor over the color you want to select in the website window, such as the plum color of the mother's sari.
4) Release the mouse button.
1) Position the Eyedropper tool cursor anywhere
in the Photoshop Elements window.
2) Press and hold Alt.
3) Click and hold the mouse button.
4) Release Alt, but not the mouse button.
5) Position the cursor over the color you want to select in the website window, such as the cyan of the girl's sari.
6) Release the mouse button.
Colors may be copyrighted.
Sample colors with this in mind.
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