Computer Graphics with Photoshop - Anyway to "copy a color" in Photoshop 7?

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Anyway to "copy a color" in Photoshop 7?

rbaulbin@hotmail.com

2005-08-13, 4:14 am

Hello -

Anyone know how to make the current text color change to another text
color that's already used on the page? The eyedropper tool doesn't
seem to apply for text color.

Thanks,

RB

iehsmith

2005-08-13, 4:14 am

On 8/12/05 11:21 PM, rbaulbin@hotmail.com uttered:

> Anyone know how to make the current text color change to another text
> color that's already used on the page? The eyedropper tool doesn't
> seem to apply for text color.

How are you using the eyedropper? While you have the text tool selected you
should be able to click the color swatch in the top bar, then eyedropper the
color you want. If you don't have the type tool select you can select Window
menu/Character, click that color swatch, then eyedropper the color.

(I'm still using PS 6, so my interface might be different)

inez

tacit

2005-08-13, 11:14 pm

In article <1123906886.063953.202540@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
rbaulbin@hotmail.com wrote:

> Anyone know how to make the current text color change to another text
> color that's already used on the page? The eyedropper tool doesn't
> seem to apply for text color.

Sure it does.

Step 1: Use the eyedropper to sample the color you want.
Step 2: Click on the text layer in the Channels palette.
Step 3: Hold down ALT on your keyboard and press the delete key.

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rbaulbin@hotmail.com

2005-08-14, 11:14 pm

I phrased the question wrong. I met to ask: is there any way to make
the text color the same as the main foreground or background color
(i.e., sync the two)?

tacit

2005-08-14, 11:14 pm

In article <1124068417.388056.41730@g43g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
rbaulbin@hotmail.com wrote:

> I phrased the question wrong. I met to ask: is there any way to make
> the text color the same as the main foreground or background color
> (i.e., sync the two)?

Sample the foreground color and hit Alt-Delete...doesn't that do what
you want it to?

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rbaulbin@hotmail.com

2005-08-17, 7:16 pm

>
> Sure it does.
>
> Step 1: Use the eyedropper to sample the color you want.
> Step 2: Click on the text layer in the Channels palette.
> Step 3: Hold down ALT on your keyboard and press the delete key.

I'm a mac, so there's really no "delete" key" like the PC, nor alt
(although command should do it). I can't find a "text" layer in the
channels palette. :)

tacit

2005-08-17, 7:17 pm

In article <1124292377.795282.100820@g49g2000cwa.googlegroups.com>,
rbaulbin@hotmail.com wrote:

> I'm a mac, so there's really no "delete" key" like the PC, nor alt
> (although command should do it). I can't find a "text" layer in the
> channels palette. :)

On the Mac, you use OPTION for ALT and you use the Delete or Backspace
key on the upper right-hand corner of the keyboard.

You say there is no layer for the text in the Layers palette. That
probably means you are editing a picture that has been saved as a JPEG
or some other format which does not allow layers. Once the picture has
been saved this way, editing it becomes far more difficult, and certain
kinds of editing are totally impossible. For that reason, whenever you
are working on an image in Photoshop, you should always save two copies
of it: one in .psd format that preserves all the layers, and one in
whatever your final format is.

Because you do not lave the text in layers, you have two choices:

1. You can select the text, using (for example) the Lasso, the Magic
Wand, the Select->Color Range command, or whatever is appropriate, then
use Option-Delete to fill it with the foreground color; or

2. You can set the text again using the Text tool.

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rbaulbin@hotmail.com

2005-08-18, 4:14 am

Right, that's all correct... I'm actually working in a PSD, not a JPEG
file. And I just realized what you're describing is actually a "fill"
command, which isn't quite what I"m looking for. I actually want to
change the existing palette color of the Text, which is in the Text
toolbar, to reflect the existing main foreground color. They're two
separate palettes, and often I just want to type using the exact same
color as the foreground color; but since they're two separate palettes,
the only way for me to make the palette color of the Text tool reflect
the same color as the foreground is by typing in the numerical value of
the color. I'd like to find some quicker way of syncing the two
palettes.

Thanks for your help.

Peter Wollenberg

2005-08-18, 4:14 am

rbaulbin@hotmail.com wrote:

>Right, that's all correct... I'm actually working in a PSD, not a JPEG
>file. And I just realized what you're describing is actually a "fill"
>command, which isn't quite what I"m looking for. I actually want to
>change the existing palette color of the Text, which is in the Text
>toolbar, to reflect the existing main foreground color. They're two
>separate palettes, and often I just want to type using the exact same
>color as the foreground color; but since they're two separate palettes,
>the only way for me to make the palette color of the Text tool reflect
>the same color as the foreground is by typing in the numerical value of
>the color. I'd like to find some quicker way of syncing the two
>palettes.
>

Maybe I really don't understand your problem, but IMHO you simply have
to select the text layer, activate the text tool, open the text color
dialog from the text tool window and click on the foreground color in
the toolbar. The mouse pointer changes to a pipette as soon as you
leave the area of the text color dialog. BTW, you can sample any
existing color in your image as a text color likewise.

Peter