Select Color from Image in Photoshop CS6

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You're watching VisiHow. In this video, we are going to show you how you can select a color from an image in Photoshop CS6 in Windows 7.

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   To begin, we should have an image open

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   In this video, we have Photoshop opened, which has a blue square icon that is at the bottom in this video.

   

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   We can either use an image by creating a new document or by opening an existing document

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   In this video, an existing image is used.

   

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   We can learn how to open or create Photoshop documents from other VisiHow videos

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   Once we have our image open, we should note the bottom part of the left-hand side panel with small pictures

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   At the very bottom, we have two squares that will be black and white at the default setting.

   

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   We can move our cursor to the top section of the column to the pipette symbol

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   We click it. Photoshop calls it "Eyedropper Tool".

   

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   We select a color by moving the tool to the color of our choice and left-clicking the pixel

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   The upper black square will change to coral. This is the color of the exact pixel on which we've clicked.

   

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   If we like, we can exchange the foreground and background colors by clicking the two arrows in the upper-left corner of the two squares

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   For the second color, we can click a whichever pixel we like

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   Let's pick blue.

   

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   We can switch between the colors if we need them for something else

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    We can also select a color by clicking "Paintbrush" in the panel

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    We'll have a little circle on our screen. If we are painting, we can select another color by moving between the selected colors very quickly.

    

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    We can press and hold "Alt" and left-click a pixel, then Photoshop will bring up the pipette tool and select the pixel color under it

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    Let's pick blue again.

    

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    If we like, we can go back to the original colors by clicking two tiny squares above the bigger squares

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    We'll be taken back to black and white.

    

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