Eyedropper Spread Trick

A reader writes:
"I'm getting tired of trying to select a color with the eyedropper and magic wand only to have it pick a really weird color I didn't want. What gives?

Eyedropper Spread Trick

That's a common problem when working with dithered colors, particularly flesh tones. You need to spread the eyedropper...

Photoshop's Eyedropper defaults to a single point. If you zoom in on any patch of color you are sampling from you'll see it's really not the color it seems to be. Rather it's a mixture of all kinds of related -- and sometimes nonrelated -- colors. What to do?

Observe up in your options bar for the Eyedropper and note the "Sample Size" setting. Pull that down and select the 3- by-3 or 5-by-5 option. Now the Eyedropper will "average" the surrounding colors and give you a better sample.

Also note that when you change that setting it affects the Magic Wand too. This may help you when selecting large areas, but it might hurt you because it will select a much wider range of colors than maybe you planned.

Comments

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