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about hiring developers or posting ads with us Graphic Design Questions Tags Users Badges Unanswered Ask Question _ Graphic Design photoshop color picker wrong Stack Exchange is a question and answer site for Graphic Design professionals, students, and enthusiasts. Join them; it only takes a minute: Sign up Here's how it works: Anybody can ask a photoshop color picker settings question Anybody can answer The best answers are voted up and rise to the top Color Picker in Photoshop is wrong up vote 6 down vote favorite 2 I'm having problems with my color picker in photoshop CS5 Image 1: I select the black [ish] bar. Color picker returns gray. Image 2: I select the white [ish] background below the black bar, color picker

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returns lighter gray. Now I thought the color picker was using grayscale, so to test, I did the same with blue. Image 3: I select the blue, color picker returns wrong blue. Image 4: I select the blue color one pixel higher than in image 3, color picker returns an even lighter blue. It's still the wrong blue, and the blue in image 3 and 4 is a solid color. Note: there are no layer styles present! adobe-photoshop color share|improve this question edited Mar 20 '14 at 8:05 Saaru Lindestøkke 9512925 asked Jul 9 '12 at 12:43 AlexMorley-Finch 284127 add a comment| 1 Answer 1 active oldest votes up vote 15 down vote Its because the colour picker is sampling a larger area than one pixel, and is mixing the colours. To fix this, when the eye dropper is selected, change the sample size at the top to Point Sample share|improve this answer edited Mar 20 '14 at 16:21 JohnB♦ 15.4k64692 answered Jul 9 '12 at 12:49 AlexMorley-Finch 284127 add a comment| protected by DᴀʀᴛʜVᴀᴅᴇʀ♦ May 16 '15 at 5:17 Thank you for your interest in this question. Because it has at

: Adobe Photoshop << PREVIOUS • VIEW ALL • PRINT • NEXT >> • foreground/background color picker reversed by David Taylor on Feb 26, 2010 at 8:32:15 pm Alright this is driving me crazy, somehow I've reversed the behavior of photoshop eyedropper wrong color the foreground/background color picker. now when I click on a swatch or choose photoshop color picker not working a color with the eye dropper it goes to the background color instead of the foreground color! How do I

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get it back to the former behavior? DT Motion Pictures http://www.davetaylormp.comReturn to posts indexReport Post •Re: foreground/background color picker reversedby David Johnson on Feb 28, 2010 at 5:55:50 pmThere's a button in the http://graphicdesign.stackexchange.com/questions/8319/color-picker-in-photoshop-is-wrong tool bar with a two-sided arrow ... it's right next to the foreground and background color indicators.Return to posts indexReport Post•Re: foreground/background color picker reversedby David Taylor on Feb 28, 2010 at 8:34:18 pmno, that button and the shortcut key (x) just switches the foreground to the background color and vice versa. What I'm talking about is when I select a color from the swatch palette https://forums.creativecow.net/thread/244/861851 it goes to the background color instead of the foreground color. I can press the command key to make it go to the foreground color but this is reversed from the way it used to be. DT Motion Pictures http://www.davetaylormp.comReturn to posts indexReport Post•Re: foreground/background color picker reversedby David Taylor on Mar 1, 2010 at 8:03:00 pmLast Edited By David Taylor on Feb 25, 2015 at 5:45:44 pmOkay, I finally found the answer searching over at Adobe's site: http://www.photoshopcafe.com/cafe/viewthread.php?tid=50679 EDIT: The above post is no longer online, scroll down a few replies in this thread and see the picture I posted below, that should clear it up for you. I'm still using CS4 so I'm not sure this is still an issue for the most current users. DT Motion Pictures http://www.davetaylormp.comReturn to posts indexReport Post•Re: foreground/background color picker reversedby David Johnson on Mar 3, 2010 at 1:37:03 amSorry I misunderstood your question ... although I've been using Photoshop many years, I usually only frequent the After Effects forum so I guess I'm too accustomed to questions like "what does this error message that says 'not enough RAM' mean?". ;~)Return to posts indexReport Post•Re: foreground/background color picker

Contact Home Work Services Website Design WordPress Development Custom Development Responsive Design WordPress Hosting WordPress Updates About Blog Website Design WordPress Responsive Design Tutorials Website Guides Contact The Blog Blog Eyedropper Changes Secondary Color Swatch - Photoshop Solution http://brianjohnsondesign.com/eyedropper-changes-secondary-color/ Eyedropper Changes Secondary Color Swatch - Photoshop Solution Sometimes in Photoshop (CS5 in http://photoblogstop.com/photoshop/accurate-white-balance-adjustments-in-photoshop my case), inexplicably, every time you use the eyedropper to get a color, it will change the secondary or background color swatch and not the primary color swatch. It can be truly maddening trying to figure this out, since the solution is far from easy to find. Googling it won't do you much color picker good unless you happen to read the right thread full of people not understanding the problem until the very end. Here is the solution. How to make the eyedropper change primary color swatch: 1.  In Photoshop, we need to make sure the color palette is visible. Go to "Window" at the top and make sure "Color" is checked. In Cs5 (and possibly others), f6 will toggle the photoshop color picker color palette as well. The color palette in Photoshop CS5 showing the proper configuration for the eyedropper to pick the color of the primary swatch. The wrong way, and the correct way. 2.  In the color palette which we just enabled, you will see your two active color swatches. One is the primary, and one is the secondary. Their will be a faint black box around the one that is selected. For your eyedropper to choose the color for the PRIMARY color, the top-left box must have the black square around it. All you need to do is click the box and it will switch. If this brings up a color window, it is probably already selected, and either your problem is gone or something else is causing it. See the attached image to see which way you should have it set up. To be honest, I'm not really sure why you would ever want the eyedropper to select only your secondary color, but I guess in some weird situation where you would need that, it's probably nice to have the feature available to you. Hopefully this helps some people, I know it drove me completely crazy

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