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About web-safe colors
Web-safe colors are the 216 colors used by browsers on both the Windows and Mac OS platforms. By working only
with these colors, you ensure that colors in art you prepare for the web display accurately in a web browser.
You can identify web-safe colors in the Adobe Color Picker by using either of the following methods:
Select Only Web Colors in the lower left corner of the Color Picker, and then choose any color in the Color Picker.
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When this option is selected, any color you pick is web-safe.
Choose a color in the Color Picker. If you choose a color that isn't web-safe, an alert cube
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color rectangle in the upper right area of the Color Picker. Click the alert cube to select the closest web-safe color.
(If no alert cube appears, the color you chose is web-safe.)
See also
"Using the Color Swatches palette" on page 221
"To use the Adobe Color Picker" on page 223
Choosing colors
To choose a color with the Eyedropper tool
The Eyedropper tool makes it easy to copy a color without having to select a swatch. It copies, or samples, the color
of an area in your photo to set a new foreground or background color. You can sample from the active image, from
another open image, or from your computer's desktop.
If you want the color always to be available, you can add the sampled color to the Color Swatches palette. You can
also specify the size of the area that the Eyedropper tool samples. For example, you can set the eyedropper to sample
the average color values of a 5-by-5 or 3-by-3 pixel area under the pointer.
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Selecting a foreground color with the eyedropper.
A. Point sample B. 5 by 5 Average sample
In the Editor, select the Eyedropper tool
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(Optional) To change the sample size of the eyedropper, choose an option from the Sample Size menu in the
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options bar:
Point Sample to get the precise value of the pixel you click.
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3 by 3 Average or 5 by 5 Average to get the average value of the specified number of pixels within the area you click.
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Do one of the following to choose a color:
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To select a new foreground color from an image, click the desired color in your image. To select a color that
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appears elsewhere on your computer screen, click inside your image and drag away from it.
in the toolbox.
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