Could we have an eyedropper tool to select precise color to do HSL adjustments on?

HSL is wonderful tool, I like it very much but would love to be able to precisely select a certain color with it's current HSL that is in my image and  with eyedropper tool and then only those pixels with that same color could be as custom color and have it affected by the HSL sliders.  now that would be cool, like color replacer in other programs
thanks!

You can do it. Click on the palette, hold and drag to your image. The eyedropper will sample colors outside the actual palette too.

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    Am I following you if what I understand that what it is that you want to do is flip the area that is selected "white" to "black" and vice versa?
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    3.  OK out and restart Photoshop.
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    Hi,
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    Not sure what exactly you are asking here.
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  • Problem: eyedropper tool gives me darker color

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    Whenever I try to use the eyedropper tool in Photoshop CS5, the eyedroper sets the background color instead of the foreground. I know you can swap the colors with the arrows, but Photoshop used to be able to just put the color in the foreground swatch without me doing any extra manual work. How do I restore it?

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    In Flash CC. It seems as though it's offset too far as it does not pick up the corre t color. Ive seen some talk of this here but for Mac. There seems to be nothing about Windows 8. How do I fix this? Without an eyedropper tool my Flash CC is relatively useless and I cant believe you havent fixed this since 2011 when I am noticing it first reported. Any help would be GREATLY appreciated.

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  • Trouble Sampling Colors with Eyedropper Tool: InDesign CS5

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    If the image is missing (check the links panel) the eydropper is sampling the RGB screen preview.
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  • Why does option+click when on the brush tool set a background color?

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