Apple Users

[crockett]

I'm playing with my new iMac, that I had to buy for a side project I'm working on. I found the little "Digtal Color Meter" and it seems pretty cool. I'm wondering is there some way I can use this to find out what the actual value of the color I'm selecting is? This way I could just simply type that value into Photoshop and get the correct color?

I scrolled through all the options, but the numbers it spits out don't seem to match the colors in photoshop.

[DomP_nl]

Works out of the box with RGB as Hex 8bits. Otherwise your PS has some settings wrong

[james_clickmemedia]

For those using a pc this is a great program for that - http://www.nattyware.com/pixie.html

[crockett]

Works out of the box with RGB as Hex 8bits. Otherwise your PS has some settings wrong

Well to be fair I said Photoshop but I'm using Fireworks. Reguardless the colors should be the same but I'll give you and example.

Using the color meter I select a color and it's this:

R% 93.3
G% 93.3
B% 93.3

Yet in Photoshop or Fireworks it's

#E9E9E9

If I try to type in 939393 it's a much darker color.

edit N/M I found the option.

[brandonstills]

Wow, been using Mac for about a year now and never knew about that. Thanks for bringing it up.

[Libertine]

Well to be fair I said Photoshop but I'm using Fireworks. Reguardless the colors should be the same but I'll give you and example.

Using the color meter I select a color and it's this:

R% 93.3
G% 93.3
B% 93.3

Yet in Photoshop or Fireworks it's

#E9E9E9

If I try to type in 939393 it's a much darker color.

edit N/M I found the option.

The 93.3% is out of 100%, the E9 is out of FF - 233 out of 256, or 91 out of 100 (which is fairly close).