Working on a Macbook. PS CS5. When I am painting using the brush tool I press the option key to switch to the eyedropper temporarily to sample a color. It samples the color but makes it the background color. I have to go swap colors to paint in the color I sampled.
View 2 RepliesUsing the "current layer" sampling setting for the eye dropper before I apply any top layer adjustments (adding a top layer with a different blending more or adding an adjustment layer) it works fine. When I use any adjustment layers or any layer that has a blending mode, it affects the way the eyedropper picks color especially when set to current layer.
For instance, If I paint a new blank layer with random colors, I create a black and white adjustment layer on top of that one, I select the first color layer I go to pick a color using the eye dropper with the current layer sampling set, it picks a grey color (which is wrong). BUT!! if I open up the color picker with the color layer selected it picks the correct color. Now, if I delete the black and white adjustment layer, and I am back to only having the color layer, I then go to pick a color with current layer sampling still set, it chooses a grey color again?!?! There are no more layers on top of the original color layer I painted first, and yet it chooses a grey color?
I am working on Photoshop CS5 12.1 64bit
I am used to "Option" clicking on a color, while using the Brush tool, to set the foreground color. In CS6, it is updating the background color instead, even though the "Info" panel clearly says "Click to choose new foreground color" when I hold down the Option key. What setting am I missing?
The foreground color is the active color in the color swatches.Manually selecting the Eyedropper tool and option-clicking, updates the foreground color. Simply clicking, updates the background color.
When I want to use the healing brush in Elements 9, having alt clicked to take a sample to brush over an object I want to remove, the brush samples continuously as I brush despite the Alligned check box being unticked. How can I get the brush to just use the original sample rather than going on sampling?
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On Photoshop there the "alt" key but on my mac it really wastes a lot of time for blending colors .
way to sample colors off the web? If I see a site with colors that I like, is there a quick way of finding out the hex numbers? I know the long winded way of save as - then edit in dreamweaver .......
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When I select the eydropper and I drag it outside Photoshop to sample a color of an image (in another window) everything seem to "move" in photoshop until I reach that image. When I say move it's the view that's moving not the layers etc.
How to make photoshop "view" stand still while i'm dragging the eyedropper out ?
However, I ran into the following scenario:We have a big PS file full of pixel art & photographs, some of both are smart objects. We'd like to resize a bunch of them, but need bicubic for some, nearest-neighbor for others.
Is there any way to set sampling techniques for each smart object?(If not, where does one post feature requests? ;D)
The other day, Photoshops started acting a little funny. Specifically, when using the paint tool, I'll hit option (alt) to sample a color to the foreground but it is sampling to the background instead. I have tried to reset all tools and no dice. How i can reverse this? it is screwing up my whole blending procress.
View 4 Replies View RelatedOne of my computers is having an issue with the clone stamp. When using the clone tool, sampling a location creates a copy of the layer you are working on that moves with the cursor. Restarting PS or rebooting the machine does not work. Its a Mac running os 10.7.5 and CS6.
View 2 Replies View RelatedIt seems there is a way to fix the sampling to a fixed position on the alt-click so that the cross does not move even though you are moving the brush.
View 5 Replies View RelatedThere doesn't appear to be a sampling method for the colour replacement tool in Elements 10, whilst there is one in Elements 11 & previous versions. Can I get a plugin/download to give me the option in Elements 10?
View 5 Replies View RelatedOne of the new features of Max is the Unified Sampling mode for mental ray. why this has been implemented and what the benefits are of using it are?
The 3ds max help says "Unified Sampling mode is easy to control and renders much more quickly than the multi-pass sampling used in previous versions of 3ds Max" How can i test this against my previous settings. As an example, my final renders are normal 1-64 with 0.05 as the spatial contrast, how would I be able to test against this setting in unified sampling mode?
I use Lightroom to manage a digital archive of historic photos at our county library. The images are scanned as TIFs at 600 ppi at the original size; images <3.5 scanned at higher res. Those are the masters to which I add metadata. These images all have a long dimension of somewhere between 2500 and 3000+ ppi but they are not consistent in size.
Now I want to export a set of JPG files that are the same physical size as the original, but a resolution of 300 ppi.
The way I did it before LR was to run a batch action in PS Image Size where I changed the resolution to 300, checked Resample Image and let it go.
I've tried a lot of different combinations in the LR export panel; changing the quality reduces the file size but it still shows the same number of pixels and the physical dimensions that it will default to is twice the size of the original. So I 'm interpreting that as it compressed the file more, but it didn't actually downsample and throw away pixels.
The only other way I'm seeing to do this is to select images of similar size and then telling it to Resize to Fit with a specific dimension at 300 dpi and "don't enlarge" checked. Or, continue using the Photoshop batch action.
[I also create a 1-inch JPG that we use for online display and an index book so LR will work fine for that. But our patrons often want a jpg copy of particular files and, unless they ask for the higher resolution version, we give them the JPGs at 300 dpi original size.]
I'm trying to make a script to transform shape by a value of below object.
(look sample image below)
And I'd like to know how to sample color from gradient-mesh or bitmap photo.
Does illustrator script have eyedropper or color sampling tool?
I have 2 different surfaces (Existing Ground & Proposed Pipe Invert) that I want to have the elevations shown for in a profile data band, but I want them to show at the design profile's PVIs (Proposed Road). Is it possible to set up a data band style that samples at one profile's geometry points but displays the elevations from these points from a different profile? My workaround is to set the data bands to all sample from the design profile first and label over the design profile's data band but I'm hoping for a cleaner solution. Attached is an image showing the profile view in question.
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When you are using brush tool and need to match the color pres ALT and brush become an Eyedropper Tool.
I'm in the IT department of a smallish company where a few people use Photoshop. A user is complaining that previously when using the eyedropper tool, she was able to click once and it would populate the foreground color and once to populate the background color. She says that she never had to hold down Alt or use X to swap the foreground and background.
Is this user just confused or is there some sort of setting that would allow one click with the eyedropper tool to populate foreground, then one click to populate the background?
When I try to edit the color of a shape layer by opening the color dialogue box of the shape layer, the color that is picked up is a lighter color than the color I clicked on.
The eyedropper is set to point sample and all layers. This problem does not occur if I open the color dialogue box that is part of the toolbar.
how can i include a sampling of type in ps7 type tool? i did this in ps3
View 3 Replies View RelatedMy eyedropper tool has suddenly gone awry. Selecting the eyedropper (or alt clicking the open window while on another tool) makes the colour selected the background colour and not the foreground as it always has done. Whereas and alt-click with the eyedropper selected makes the colour the foreground one.
Not a huge problem but one that's getting increasingly annoying as I try to work and keep painting the wrong colour.
Using OSX 10.7.3 and CS5.
When using Curves to increase contrast for an image, I see that some people will use the eyedropper to define an anchor point on the Curve to manipulate, and others just seem to drag on a spot on the curve without first using the eyedropper.
1. Is there a reason to not use the eyedropper, and instead just drag a point on the curve?
2. Won't using the eyedropper always be more accurate than just eyeballing a spot on the curve to drag?
It's very annoying coming from CS3, which doesn't do that. I can't figure how to stop it. It's probably simple.
View 3 Replies View Relatedpress i or select the eye dropper tool, the colour you pick becomes the foreground colour. You can also press alt to select the colour for the background. However somehow this action has been reversed and now i have to press alt to select the foreground colour.
Really annoying as it slows down my workflow when painting. Anyone have any ideas how to fix this, there doesn't seem to be anything in the prefs dealing with this. Also reinstalled ps a week ago which fixed it, but has now happened again!
when I got to use the eyedropper tool it does not work..
instead of eyedropping the color it will select white.
I am using a single layer image in RGB mode..
This happens quite frequently.
Why does the eyedropper not read all layers? If I have an adjustment layer above the one I'm reading the eyedropper does not take that into it's reading like it did in PS 5.0
View 4 Replies View RelatedThe CS6 Beta version crashing when switching to the eyedropper tool, here;
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It's still doing the same thing with the release version. It seems having Color Burst RIP 6.1 running at the same time causes it.
Whenever I hit Ctrl to try and use the eyedropper tool Photoshop and Camera Raw freeze. solution to this problem?
View 2 Replies View RelatedThis occurs when:
I use the Curves Toolbox (I invoke this command thru the shortcut Ctrl + M) and select the grey eyedropper to color correct my image. It crashes immediately upon clicking with the eyedropper to select my source color. When I am using the Brush tool in Color mode and I hit "option" to invoke the eyedropper it will crash as soon as I choose my source color.
Here is a link to the text in the crash report:
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The only other programs I have running are Finder, Firefox, Text Expander, and Bridge. Mini-Bridge is open as well. I'm going to try to work solely with Mini-Bridge to see if that works at all.
I am running PS v7 with XP pro, and I have replicated the following problem many times, but only on my machine. My laptop PS is fine. Here is the problem...
Whenever I double-click on the foreground color in the color palette (or otherwise try and change the color), PS goes into eye-dropper mode, disables everything else (including the ability to shut the program down) and will not let me do anything. I end up having to go to task-manager to kill the process. This is very strange, but unfortunately happens 100% of the time I try to change colors in PS.
when I select a colour with the eyedropper tool, isn't the corresponding colour supposed to be set to the foreground colour? But mine sets it to the background colour so I have to switch it around when I want to use it - trust me, big hassle.
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