Have you ever wanted to select a color with your eyedropper tool that is not within your photoshop document? Now you can learn how to with this super amazing quick tip! Leave a comment and let me know what you think! And as always you can subscribe via iTunes!
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Daryl Walker-Smith says:
Awesome Tip Nikki – VERY useful indeed!
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February 12th, 2009 at 8:57 am
Daryl Walker-Smith says:
(Apologies for spelling your name wrong)
February 12th, 2009 at 8:58 am
Aetoric Design says:
I’m not going to lie…I actually just learned something!
February 12th, 2009 at 9:05 am
Sarah says:
I did not know this, very cool. The old adage seems to be especially true with Photoshop.
February 12th, 2009 at 9:07 am
Tim says:
Great tip. I have always wondered how to do this. Before I would have to open my DigitalColor Meter, write down the hex code, go to Photoshop and put it in, etc. This is so useful.
February 12th, 2009 at 9:10 am
Marty says:
I never knew this. Great tip. Thanks!
February 12th, 2009 at 9:50 am
Steph Adamo says:
Nice! How would that work with Spaces, though? I always keep Photoshop in its own Space, and then i end up using DigitalColor Meter to get hex values for colors on the ‘net.
February 12th, 2009 at 10:06 am
shannon says:
this was a great tip…i feel so archaic now for doing this the hard way all this time! thanks!
February 12th, 2009 at 10:47 am
Kerstin says:
Thanks Niki, I wish I’d known that ages ago.
February 12th, 2009 at 12:15 pm
Rick Quarton says:
Like everyone else, seems I’ve been doing it the hard way. Thanks for the tip. I’ll be subscribing.
February 12th, 2009 at 12:28 pm
William says:
Great tip! So simple and so useful.
February 12th, 2009 at 12:40 pm
Matt Barnes says:
This one is a favorite of mine. Glad to see it’s spreading around. What I really want is for Dreamweaver to have a feature where if I type
color:in a css file, it would give me the option to eyedropper a color, and paste its hex value in automatically.February 12th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
Antonea | VelvetAnt Design Blog says:
That is kind of awesome. I actually never knew that. Thanks for that one.
February 12th, 2009 at 1:53 pm
Desizntech says:
Hey nice tip!! thanks
February 12th, 2009 at 2:05 pm
Shawn K says:
I knew there was a way to do this but could not for the life of me remember how. Thank you.
February 12th, 2009 at 2:07 pm
gNcWebmaster says:
Really good technique niki thanks.
February 12th, 2009 at 2:40 pm
joyoge designers' bookmark says:
I did not know this too, very nice thanks..
February 12th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
Kelle says:
Brilliant, I did not know that
February 12th, 2009 at 5:36 pm
wayne says:
sneaky little photoshop! … Great tip – thanx!!!
This is definitely going to come in handy
February 12th, 2009 at 11:22 pm
Adrian says:
Excellent!
February 13th, 2009 at 5:02 am
Neko says:
This can also be achieved using the Colorpicker plugin for FireFox.
February 13th, 2009 at 7:54 am
Marvin says:
This is a great tip Niki! Just used it today and will be using it a lot from now on…Thanks!
February 13th, 2009 at 2:20 pm
Mick says:
Great tip. Before I was having to either save a selection of the image I wanted the color info on or use a FF extension to get the values. Now I just have to click it.
Thanks a lot!
February 15th, 2009 at 11:49 am
Spot Cool Design says:
I used to do this through a much more roundabout method. Your way is so much easier. Thanks!
February 16th, 2009 at 2:51 pm
Kish says:
Awesome !
thanks heaps.
February 16th, 2009 at 6:12 pm
thinkflick says:
good and useful tip , It makes my work efficient. Thanks bro. Because I used to do it i anther way and took a lot of time but now it is only one click far away.
February 18th, 2009 at 3:51 am
Kelly says:
excellent!!! thanks!
February 18th, 2009 at 6:37 am
Danielle says:
Great tip! Just what I was looking for! Thanks!
March 2nd, 2009 at 2:15 am
Emily says:
Dear Niki-
You are now officially my favoritest person in design-blogland. That is all.
March 9th, 2009 at 5:50 pm
John egg says:
Fantastic thanks! Coincidently I came across that problem today and found it very frustrating. Very handy.
March 27th, 2009 at 12:19 pm
Aaron Miller says:
Thanks for the tip, this also works in Illustrator.
Keep up the good work
June 1st, 2009 at 11:11 am
elmalak says:
Dear Niki:
Well, I’ve always thought there must be a way to use the dropper tool outside of Photoshop and now I know it !
Thanks a lot of those very useful little tips.
Keep them going.
elmalak
September 9th, 2009 at 2:02 pm