Custom colour swatches and analysing a photo

hi!
i have two questions.
what i want to do is taking pictures of my patients teeth with a neutral grey on the photo to get the white balance right.
then i would like to analyse areas of the photo.
i was told that it is possible to generate a palette of colours and use a tool to point on different areas of the photo and ps shows me to which of my colours of the custom palette the area i point at is closest to (i want to identify the tooth colour of a patient).
could anyone tell me how to do this?
regards
jens

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thekrimsonchin wrote:
I know this issue must crop up a lot due to its confusing nature
You have no idea.
What I'm reading is that you want Photoshop, with its color management enabled, to display your sRGB photos as they would be seen on a true sRGB monitor - i.e., accurately.
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What we can't know is whether your judgment that your color-managed sRGB images are undersaturated is correct in an absolute sense, or whether you're just feeling the difference between seeing them on your monitor in non-color-managed apps and Photoshop.
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