Sampling a color without using the Eyedropper?

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February 22, 2023
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Creating an Action that, in part: makes a selection, averages it (Ctrl-Shift-A) then copies or 'gets' this color to use as a fill in another step. How can i go from selection to swatch without the Eyedropper?

thanks!

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r-bin

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What's not to like about eyedropper?

Duplicate the selection into a new temporary layer. Duplicate the layer into a new document. Trim transparency. Enable allow tool recording. Poke with an eyedropper at the coordinate (1px,1px). Close temporary document. Delete temporary layer.

Pooch88Author

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this sounds interesting -- but the problem is choosing a coordinate. The color to be sampled will be scattered at a different locations in different photos. i could use eyedropper in the same spot every time if i could figure out how to fill the entire layer w that color. ... actually I now seem to have a workaround: i can select a color (w fuzziness) then average it. Ctrl-J to isolate it on a layer (which now has mostly transparency w scattered color at different opacities), Ctrl-J a bunch (+ merge) to punch it in to be opaque, then select the inverse -- Content-Aware Fill will fill in the transparency w that color! Then eyedropper can be used more reliably.

what do you think?