Color Picker (Text Color) picking up slightly off color than the one I sampled - Photoshop 2025

[Isaac25555517dm7l]

Hi! I'm having trouble with my Color Picker (Text Color). It's not picking up the correct color, it's showing a lighter color than the one I'm sampling. All of the other color pickers work perfectly fine such as the Overlay Color, Stroke Color, Solid Color, etc., it's only the text color picker that's acting up. I can't figure out the setting that is causing this to happen. Does anyone know how to fix this issue? Thank you!

[Nancy OShea]

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Which tool are you using to sample color -- Eyedropper or Color Sampler?

Have you applied any fx to the Type Layer, such as a color or gradient overlay? This can alter its color appearance from the original.  Also, the Type Layer mode can affect colors.

[Isaac25555517dm7l]

I'm using the Eyedropper

There are no fx to the layer

[Nancy OShea]

Color Sampler is a more precise tool.  It provides persistent value readouts from various sample points in both RGB & CMYK values.  Values are shown in the Info panel.

The Eyedropper tool merely averages colors based on the sample size and layers sampled (all, some, with/without adjustments).  Depending on your settings, you may experience variations.

Hope that helps.

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