Colour question

[Moberg]

If i find a nice colour on a picture is there any way to find out which colour it is using photoshop?

[rexburg22re]

If the photo is opened in Photoshop, simply use the color dropper tool to select the exact pixel/color you want, double click the foreground color in your tools window, then write down those HSB, RGB, LAB and/or CMYK color #'s and then when you want to use the color in a photo, simply type those exact numbers in and you'll have that very color.

Hope that's what you meant, I can't imagine you were asking if Photoshop would tell you what the colors Dupont name was

[Medley]

Even if the image isn't opened in PS, you can use this same method. You must have some image- any image- open. You simply click-and-hold anywhere within the document, then drag the eyedropper to any place on the screen. The color registers in the color-picker when you release the mouse button.

Thus, if you can get the color on your monitor, you can sample it.

- Joe U.

[rexburg22re]

Even if the image isn't opened in PS...

True... but PS has to be open, obviously.

[Medley]

If i find a nice colour on a picture is there any way to find out which colour it is using photoshop?

Hard to do it 'using Photoshop' if it isn't.

- Joe U.

[Moberg]

If the photo is opened in Photoshop, simply use the color dropper tool to select the exact pixel/color you want, double click the foreground color in your tools window, then write down those HSB, RGB, LAB and/or CMYK color #'s and then when you want to use the color in a photo, simply type those exact numbers in and you'll have that very color.

Hope that's what you meant, I can't imagine you were asking if Photoshop would tell you what the colors Dupont name was

oh,haha thanks. Cant believe I missed that tool
Thanks for the help everyone.