Adobe Photoshop CS5 One-on-One

Figure 5-18.

Figure 5-19.

20. Sample the green color. Press the I key to get the eyedropper
    tool, and click anywhere that is already green. By default, the
    eyedropper samples the composite color, so you’re likely to get a
    pale or dark green rather than the bright green from the original
    Colors layer. In Figure 5-19, I’ve clicked a spot (with CS5’s new
    heads-up display for color sampling) that gave me dark green
    for my foreground color (as indicated by the top half-circle of
    the heads-up display), which is not what I want.

Fix this problem in the options bar by choosing Current Layer

from the Sample pop-up menu, as in Figure 5-20. Now when

you click with the eyedropper tool, the color sampler will use

the Colors layer (which should be currently active) and load the

original green as the foreground color.

Figure 5-20.

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