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This document was created by an unregistered ChmMagic, please go to http://www.bisenter.com to register it. Thanks .palette menu. This saves you time and the headache of having to reselect all your favorite colors each time you open Photoshop. You canalso use the Swatches palette menu to open any of the 15 or so swatch palettes that ship with Photoshop. Color swatches are saved in thePresets folder.The Eyedropper ToolYou've seen the Eyedropper appear when you moved the pointer over a color swatch or over the color ramp in the Color Palette window.Its function, quite obviously and intuitively, is to pick up a bit of whatever color you touch it with, making that the active color. What's neatabout this tool is that it works in the same way on a pictureyou can pick up a bit of sky blue, grass green, or skin, without having to identifya match for it with the Color Picker.The Eyedropper tool is extremely helpful, especially when you are retouching a picture and need to duplicate the colors in it. Click it on anyspot in the image and the color underneath its tip becomes the new foreground color. Use Option+click (Mac) or Alt+click (Windows) toselect a background color instead. If you drag the Eyedropper across an image, the swatch of color in the toolbox changes each time theEyedropper touches a new color. If you begin dragging in the Photoshop window you can keep the mouse button down and drag anywhereon the desktop to pick up the colors of your wallpaper or icons.Hitting the Hot SpotsRemember that the Eyedropper, like all the tools, is active only at its hotspot, in this case, right at the tip. If you find it hard to work with the hot spot,just go to Preferences Display & Cursors, and change the display toPrecise in the Other Cursors area.Eyedropper Options, on the Tool Options bar shown in Figure 8.9, enables you to select how much of a sample to pick up with theEyedropper. You can take a single pixel sample, or average a 3x3 pixel or 5x5 pixel color sample.Figure 8.9. Set the Eyedropper Options here.You can convert any other Painting tool (except the Eraser and the History Brushes) into an Eyedropper to change foreground colorson-the-fly by pressing Option (Mac) or Alt (Windows) while you're working.