Material eyedropper tool

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Materials eye dropper tool. Back to Idea Board Previous Next. Are there any plans to include an eye dropper tool for active material selection?

Community Manager. Great idea, we plan on providing this tool in the future. Thanks for the suggestion!

Seems like this is implemented! It ultimately comes down to how specific you need to be. Rather than how large of a sample radius like in the previous example, the sample type dictates what layers are actually considered in a sample.

In Photoshop, there are 5 different sample settings to choose from. Below breaks down what each of them does. This sample type will only let you sample your selected layer. This other layer could be an adjustment layer, a smart object , or a regular layer, and it will still be added to the sample.

Every layer outside of these two layers will not be included in your Eyedropper sample. With an All Layers sample type, the Eyedropper will sample every layer in the layers panel regardless of its type. This option is great if you want to sample everything you see in your project at once. When sampling All Layers no Adjustments, that means the Eyedropper Tool will only look at layers and not adjustment layers. However, the big difference is that it will ignore any adjustment layers between your selected layer and the next closest layer.

Depending on which sample type you are using, you may have a problem with the Eyedropper tool selecting the right colors. To fix this, consider what areas of your photo you want to sample, which layers those adjustments are on and set the sample type accordingly. This makes it much more difficult to know what color you have sampled since the only thing you can see is the tools icon. This can happen if you accidentally uncheck the show sampling ring option in the Eyedropper Tools settings bar.

By pressing I on your keyboard to access the Eyedropper Tool, check off the Show Sampling Ring option from the upper settings bar. After all, they all have very similar tool icons to one another. For sampling colors in your photo , the tool you want to use is the Eyedropper Tool.

By clicking and holding on the eyedropper icon in your toolbar, you can switch over to the correct eyedropper.

So those are a handful of reasons the Eyedropper Tool stops working and how to fix it in Photoshop. As with any tool in the program, they often stop working properly because of a small setting being out of order.

By going through all of your settings options as we did here, you can pinpoint exactly where the problem is occurring. Brendan is an outdoor lifestyle and travel photographer from Vancouver, Canada who loves getting outside and eating donuts. He has worked all over the globe shooting for a variety of tourism boards and clients in North America, Europe, and South America.

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