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Topic: color picker with lab

I have a Color Picker Pro download which only has hsl, rgb and hsl.  I understand that Adobe Photoshop CS3 has a color picker that also has Lab color reading.

The Color Picker Pro I have lets you move your curser over a picture anywhere on your screen and gives you a color reading.  Does the CS3 color picker let you do that also?

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Re: color picker with lab

As far as I know, the Photoshop CS3 picker only allows you to select colors that are in open documents. I usually use the Firefox plugin Colorzilla to help select colors.

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Re: color picker with lab

Same here, program color pickers just do what is in that program. Colorzilla will ony pick up colors in Fx.  But it is free.

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Re: color picker with lab

In Photoshop, you can "Print Screen" and paste into a new document and then use the colour picker.

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Re: color picker with lab

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You can probably find more by searching 'desktop color picker' via Google or Yahoo.

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