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4 - Anything That's on Your Screen

You can use the Eyedropper tool to sample a color from a photograph, or something else on your screen, such as a website.

Select a Color from a Photograph

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.

Select a Color from

Something Else on the Screen

(Windows Only)

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.

Two Windows Visible

First, you have to make the Photoshop Elements window smaller so you can see the website with the sari photograph.

Do the following.

1) Click the Minimize icon in the upper right corner of your screen.

It's the double-box icon located between the dash icon and the X icon.

2) Reduce the size of the Photoshop Elements window.

a) Place your cursor on one of the corners.

b) When the cursor changes to a double arrow, click, hold, and drag the Photoshop Elements window inward.

Click & Hold

Now that you can see both windows, Photoshop Elements and the website with the sari photograph, do the following.

1) Select the Eyedropper tool.

2) Click and hold the Eyedropper tool cursor on the photograph that's open in Photoshop Elements.

3) Move the Eyedropper tool cursor to the sari photograph.

4) Release the mouse button.

The sari color is now the foreground color.

 

To change the background color, press and hold Alt, when you press and hold the mouse button above.

Note

Colors may be copyrighted.

Sample colors with this in mind.

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