How to identify a color in a photo and apply it elsewhere..

[kathymn]

I am a complete newbie. I am making a travel photo album on "Blurb". I need to get the color code from a photo (a small section of sky for eg.), so that I can use the numbers to make custom color borders for my photo pages that are the exact color of the sky from the photo.

Can anyone walk me through this? Thank you!

kathy

[Erin DigitalPhotosForMoms]

Hi Kathy!

In PHotoshop, use the eyedropper tool to click on the part of the sky whose color you want to duplicate. You will see that the foreground color swatch at the bottom of your toolbar turns blue. If you double click on the swatch, you will see the color code.

You can also go to the Window menu and select info. You will then have an eyedropper that you can move anywhere and get a new color code reading for it.

[vawitt]

Hi, and welcome.

If the color chips you are trying to match have the code #s displayed, you can clip the color chips box in PSE and type in the matching numbers, either in the R (red), G (green) and/or (Blue), or the type the entire 6-digit hex number in the very bottom box, next to the # sign.

That would also give you an exact match. For example, #ffffff is white, #000000 is black. A particular color of purple is 8e1c80.

Click the thumbnail below to enlarge the image for easier viewing.

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[Priyanka Azad]

Very simple - Use the eyedropper tool and click on the area. The color will now become your foreground color and use the brush tool or any other tool to paint with that color.

~Pri