What does eyedropper tool do

It's essential for graphic designers who work in a brand with strict pantone color regulations and protocols. The eye dropper tool is used to pick up a color value from the canvas. This is a very useful tool because there will be many times when you want to switch colors while painting to a color already on your canvas and you do not want to go all the way through the color chooser dialog. In these cases, simply click on the eye dropper tool in the toolbox and click on the color you want to select inside the canvas.

When you do so, your foreground color in your color boxes will change to the selected color. Products By Bayt. Tip 2. To make the color selection more precise, press CapsLock on the keyboard and the Eyedropper will turn into a target so that you can collect one exact pixel of a picture.

Tip 3. It is possible to pick up a color not only from the image opened in the Photoshop's workspace but from other applications too. Look at the picture below. We reduced the size of the Photoshop window. We want to pick up the color of the sky from a photo on a web-page Internet Explorer.

Activate the Eyedropper tool , put the cursor to the image of the house, press the left mouse button and drag the cursor outside the Photoshop workspace to sample the color of the sky.

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