Use The Eyedropper Tool to Boost Photos in Unique Ways (VIDEO)

Photoshop’s versatile Eyedropper tool enables you to make several significant enhancements to nature, landscape, and other types of images, and today’s tutorial from the popular PHLEARN YouTube channel explains how they work. There’s also an interesting trick that many of you will find surprising.

Instructor Aaron Nace is an expert at all things Adobe, and more than two million subscribers tune in to his how-to videos that are designed to simplify common post-processing methods. In barely six minutes you’ll learn how take advantage of the Eyedropper tool for sampling colors, creating multiple sample points, and changing the average sample size.

Nace explains the goal of his episode like this: “You’ll discover how to select foreground and background colors efficiently, and even replace a background with colors sampled directly from your images. He also reveals several timesaving keyboard shortcuts for streamlining this game-changing workflow.

Nace opens the tool by tapping the letter “I” which lets you click on a tone anywhere within the frame to change the foreground color of the shot. The Eyedropper includes a variety of useful options, like tapping the Point Sample tab atop the screen and zooming in to sample colors pixel by pixel for absolutely precise results. You can also specify an “average size” for the selection.

The same method is used to choose the background color instead, and there’s another keyboard shortcutto facilitate the process. There may be times when you want to track multiple points throughout the image. Doing so is a simple as holding down the Shift key, after which you can click on each individual point.

Photoshop will store these colors in the Info panel with the RGB values included. When doing this the Color Sampler tool appears and Nace explains how to proceed further. Once you’re done watching and adding this technique to your everyday workflow check out the PHLEARN YouTube channel for more editing tips and techniques.

We also recommend watching the earlier tutorial we featured with another post-processing expert who demonstrates a simple way to use focus stacking in Photoshop and Lightroom to create stunning landscape photographs with maximum sharpness all the way from front to back.

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