Apple Users
 

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.

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

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

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.

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

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).