Grab colour from photoshop

If I have a mockup in photoshop the quickest way I know of to grab colour values is to eyedrop in photoshop look at the CMYK values for that colour and type them into indesign. I was just doing this for the nth time when I realised how stupid it was - surely theres a better way?

If you want the exact colors add them to your swatches in Photoshop and the from the swatches panel menu choose Save Swatches for Exchange.
The eyedropper does return an exact color—it's easy enough to test:
Make a CMYK psd file and fill it with any color. Save the file without a profile. Place the file in ID, draw a box on top of it and fill the top box with the psd color via the eyedropper. Export to PDFX/1-a. Open the PDF in Acrobat and the top box will be a seamless match to the bottom box.
Also, it doesn't matter what the display performance mode is when you pick up the color (including fast where there's no preview), which shows that the eyedropper is getting the value from the file itself and not the preview.

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Grab image from photoshop using sdk

the following sampe in the sdk shows how the client requests
a thumbnail from photoshop.
var idNS = stringIDToTypeID("sendDocumentThumbnailToNetworkClient")
var desc1 = new ActionDescriptor();
desc1.putInteger( stringIDToTypeID("width" ), 640;
desc1.putInteger( stringIDToTypeID("height" ), 400);
desc1.putInteger( stringIDToTypeID("format" ), 1);
executeAction( idNS, desc1, DialogModes.NO );
The command above sends an image to the client, which has no metadata like exif.
BUT how can the client request a full IMAGE (Picture with metadata and not downsized) not a thumbnail from photoshop
sending it to the client ??? Is there any message like above ?
where are the messages listed like "sendDocumentThumbnailToNetworkClient"
and other, I can't find them anywhere ??
best regards
Chris

Ask Photoshop what the size of the image is and request it in the width and height.
Make a second request for the xmp data via JavaScript. activeDocument.xmpMetadata.rawData
The list of commands can be found on this page documentation/pages/index.html
Consult the JavaScript documentation for all the things you can do with that API. The documents are part of you Photoshop install in the Scripting folder.

Save spot colours in Photoshop for import to Indesign

I'm having problems in Indesign due to using drop shadows in some graphics which are over an image with transparencies. What I think would solve the problem is to remove the transparencies in the image using photoshop and then use that. However, the image has spot colours which is giving me headaches. I haven't found a way of importing the spot colours directly into photoshop from illustrator or whatever - they always seem to get converted to CMYK. However, I have managed to recreate the spot colour in Photoshop as a channel - so the file is CYMK+1spot channel. However, when I try to import the psd file into Indesign I get an error message "The file uses an unsupported colour space...". I have tried exporting as eps but that didn't work either. I have seen various help messages which seem to imply that you can import spot colours from photoshop - can someone suggest what I am doing wrong ? I use CS5.

Besides saclint the image up, which reduces the "effective" resolution, do you have your display performance in ID set to High Quality Display? You are not looking at actual pixels in ID, just a jpeg preview, and that will also make a difference, and any edges which are not truly horizontal or vertical will always have some sort of stair-stepping in a pixel-based of the pixels to approximate the line, and this can become more noticeable whn you zoom in or when you scale upwards.

Placed bitmaps in Illustrator from Photoshop have different colour breakdown?

When I place a bitmap in illustrator from Photoshop the colour breakdown changes. In photoshop, it could be set up using a 100% Solid black using CMY 0% and K100% but when I place this in illustrator the breakdown changes to say C:78.89%, M:80.45%, Y:88.90% K:90.45%.
Does anyone know why this happens and how to prevent it?
Thanks!!

You cannot read the exact color values of a placed bitmap in Illustrator, you have to open the imaeg in photoshop. Never use SHIFT eyedropper if you desire color accuracy.
To prove this to yourself, you can use seperations preview to verify there is no CMY in your placed image, or print seperations to a laser printer.
Below are the values I get using shift eyedropper.
But look there is no CMY.

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Could be a corrupt monitor profile. Try killing it temporarily and seeing if the both become the same.

[OSX] Photoshop CC bug - can't change Shape Layer colour from layers panel

Hi there,
I have a persistent bug where after a certain amount of time (potentially after the iMac goes to sleep and reawakes?) that after creating a new Shape Layer I can no longer change it's colour from the layers panel. If I double-click it the colour palette appears and it seems to record the colour but the Shape Layer does not reflect this. If I go into the Shape Layer bar at the top of the screen I can still change the Fill and Stroke.
If I re-open the program it works again.

Had the same problem. Turns out I needed to use the Path Selection Tool and click the path right on the canvas, not in the layer panel. This re-enables the Live Shape properties.
Here is a short video with more details if you're interested -> http://www.michalkopec.com/blog

Can't print from Photoshop or Lightroom

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Hello All.
I am at a lost with this issue which has only started in the last month or so on two different computers.
I am unable to print any doucments from Photoshop or Lightroom to any o my printers. All other applications print just fine to all printers. No error messages, the print job just nevers gets to the print drivers. I can print the documents by saving to the desktop and dragging the desktop file to the printer 'print queue' window.
I have spent the last week searching online for a solution, but can't seem to find one.
Any assistance grately appreciated.
W.

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Jpeg thumbnails too small when saved from Photoshop

Since moving to Snow Leopard, I notice that the Finder shows jpegs saved from Photoshop quite a bit smaller than jpegs saved using other apps, like Preview or just scanned images. This makes viewing the thumbnails in the Finder harder. Does anyone know why this is happening and how to fix it?
I would post a screen grab to show this, but I can't see how to do that here. If anyone knows, please let me know.
Thanks

That's because Photoshop creates its own rather smallish icons (by the new standards) for the files. If you remove custom thumbnails and let Finder draw them they'll be scalable all the way up to 512x512. There is a preference from within Photoshop to tell it to NOT create icons. Go to PS prefs, select Saving Files, and turn off Image Previews. The advantage is that the icons can be drawn larger; the disadvantage is that they will appear in Finder more slowly, since instead of simply displaying what is there Finder has to draw the icons. Furthermore, Finder doesn't always draw the icons with the clarity one would expect: sometimes they never do appear as sharp as they ought to be (there are several very lengthy threads discussing this problem, with no real solution), sometimes they slowly appear in all their large glory.
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CS2 Eye dropper and clone tool not picking up correct colour from image.

Hello everyone, Can anyone help me please. I have an iMac with 0SX 10.4.4.
Plenty of Ram and hard drive space. In using CS2 the eyedropper and clone tools will not pick up the exact same colour from the image that I require. It is always lighter in shade and has on occasion been white. Any help in solving this problem will be much appreciated.
Yours in anticipation, Geoff Walter.

>The eyedropper is picking-up the color as rendered in RGB on your Monitor...
Really? Not from the pixels in the file? So the same pixels are reported with different values depending on monitor setup? This is about how the eyedropper reports pixel values, not about how they are rendered to the screen, is that correct?
Just to be sure here, this is so even with the eyedropper set to point sample?
Al
Edit: Or do you mean that this is a known problem with 0SX 10.4.4. and Photoshop, in which the values are picked up from the monitor and not from the file data?

Creating graphics for iPhone from Photoshop

Hi, I'm putting together my first App for the iPhone and I have a question when it comes to exporting my graphics from Photoshop. I have looked all over the web place and I can't find a direct answer, I hoped that someone might have an idea in here? It is more of a Photoshop question but directly relates to the iPhone so here goes.......
My psd has the embedded colour profile - CHROMiX iPhone Aug08 as I have been advised to use from the web. From here all I want to do is export the graphic. I am exporting as a PNG-24. The exported graphic is either slightly washed out or much much darker. As this is my first time in doing it I don't know which is right, nor do I know why I am getting two different results.
Any help? Please! I am going round in circles.

Hello, Andy and welcome to the Discussions.
I would suggest that you ask for assistance in the developer forums to which you have access as a member of Apple's iOS developer's program:
http://developer.apple.com/devforums/
You'll be much more likely to get assistance there, particularly with such a very specific issue. This forum is really for people using the iPhone rather than for people developing for it.
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How to correctly use spot colours in Photoshop?

Hi,
Using CS2, I've created one of those swooshy Macintosh Panther wallpaper images, with various layers of sweeping lines and tinted gradient arcs.
Now I want to create the image using just tints of pantone 519 but I'm unsure of how to work with pantone colours in photoshop. I've pulled up the solid coated pantone library and located the swatch, but how do I specify various tints of this colour?
I've searched the forum and come across spot channels, and have read the photoshop help entry on this, but still can't understand how to do it. From what I've read, I make a selection, then create a spot channel of the colour and set the solidity to 100%. If I want an 80% tint, I just adjust the solidity to 80%. Is this correct, or is the solidity more like transparency than tint?
In addition, how do I create a gradient between these two colours?
Final question - I have an element I want to import from Illustrator that uses the same spot colour. Do I have to deal with this any differently to the normal copy and paste as a smart object?
Sorry, I'm sure this is really quite easy.
Thanks for any help.
Steven

Why not just mode grayscale (or better yet a black and white adjustment layer, then mode grayscale), adjust levels, new spot channel, move dot from gray channel to spot channel? If it was made in RGB 519, your green channel is probably best to make the move to grayscale. If you're working in CMYK, then the magenta channel (unless of course you're using pictures with UCR/GCR).
 
 I guess I don't understand how you can say "I'll set it up best in CMYK" but can't get it to one color.
 
 Here's the tut version using the green channel only. If you do some channel mixing, I'm sure you could get something a little nicer.
 
 
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Importing from Photoshop

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Hi Brenda,
Thanks for the reply,
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InDesign seeing spot channel color from Photoshop as a lab value

Does anyone know why Indesign sees a spot color that is created in Photoshop as a lab value rather then a cmyk value? FYI - I'm using CS4 6.0.5 and not planning on switching to 5 for a while and also on a Mac - using Leapord 10.5.8, and about to switch to SnowLeapord.
Anyways, If I place a Photoshop tiff into Indesign the spot color shows in the swatches as a lab value, and in Illustrator it is a CMYK value?
I can get it to see the color as CMYK in Indesign if I use a color library swatch from Photoshop, but no other way.
I'm using the color swatch for a RIP that uses that channel to print White ink, and sometimes it's useful to create the channel in Photoshop, the RIP sees the channel by a certain spot color designation. The spot color needs to be named in a particular way in order for proper work flow, so it's not desirable to have the swatch named a Pantone color.
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You can take a custom spot colour and rename it to whatever you like in photoshop, when I import the graphic into InDesign CS4 I see the swatch as Lab spot (all Pantone Solid spots are defined as Lab, cmyk values are only determined by an app' that is asked to convert)
and when placed into Illustrator CS4 I see the same and if I double click on the spot swatch (still with the custom name I gave it in photoshop), I have a choice of Lab, cmyk etc at that time.
Indesign will correctly see the swatch as Lab until you request the app' to convert to cmyk at output or double click on the swatch and change it to cmyk.
You don't want the swatch to be cmyk, if you do that it will output as cmyk... if you want it to separate at the rip it needs to be a spot, which is seen by default as Lab in any application or can be converted to cmyk on request. You can't have it as a cmyk spot, that does not make sense unless you are outputting as only cmyk.

Trying to open Adobe Bridge from Photoshop CC 2014 will launch Creative Cloud

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