Preserved Topic: This handy lil' tool i found

Ok imagine this you need to work on an old pic for some reason.
But the .PSD file is gone after an clean-up from your HD. Now what colors are used in this pic again?

A client sends you an .JPG from his logo and says "i like this colors on my website"

You need to match an pic. and a background..


Then you could use a program like hexcolor studio Just load your pic in the program move the mouse over the desired color(s) and copy and past the color code to whereever you like. Or copy the RGB values...

~Rinswind ~


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[This message has been edited by twItch^ (edited 07-13-2001).]

Personally, I recommend Huey, great stuff! http://www.lightman.com/software/huey/

you can do that in photoshop.

just open you color controls. pick the color and you got the rgb, cmyk, hsb, lab, and HTML values.

sidenote: version 5.0 and previous versions do not give you the html color code.

there are countless programs that do similar things, usually in very different ways, and it's always good to see different ones. Pixie is a good one (small, runs in the background...).



?Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative? -- Oscar Wilde

pixie and Huey do dat but I honestly can't see why people recomend those when you have Photoshop.

Do ya'll realize that you can move they eyedropper tool over any individual pixel in a file and it will tell you in the info palette exactly what color your looking at, as 1573 be describing there? You can even specify it to tell you combinations of grayscale, RGB, HSB, web, or CMYK through the palette options of the info palette.

Now why load yet another system bogging little app?

Jason

Öhhh, of course you don't need anything else than Photoshop to do that. The color-picker is your friend.

Just upgrade!!! get a crack.....


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The eyedroper in PS only works on an image open in PS. Right? Am I wrong? The advantage to these little tiny utility apps is that they will read hex values from anything open on screen. Wanna grab the hex value from the Asylum? You could do screen captures and open in PS, or you could read directly from your browser with one of these doodads. They're useful. I have one for the Mac which I do use every now and then. Good tool to have in the tool box. I for one don't have the ram to run Photoshop, Explorer and a text editor all at once (I have PS set to pretty much all the RAM I have). There are times when I'm in the text editor, previewing a page in IE and I want to define a background color or type color or something, based on colors from an image. Do I quit everytihing so I can open the image in PS, just to grab the hex values? Nope. I can use the little tool to sample the hex from IE and then paste it into the text editor. Don't use it every day, but it's nce to have it there when I want it.

excellent point Steve. I had Huey installed at one time cuz I was tired of screen capping but I never remembered to use it so I ditched it and continued on. I still wonder if people realize they *can* do it in Photoshop... not a lot of glamour in the info palette.


Jason