Photoshop Nugget: Copy Color's Hex Code

The Eyedropper tool’s contextual menuIf you’re a designer or developer, Photoshop is probably one of the cornerstone tools in your toolbox, but even if you use it every day, chances are there are a few tricks that may have slipped under your radar. For example, back in Photoshop CS4, the Eyedropper tool was given a new contextual menu item that allowed you to copy the selected color’s HTML value to your clipboard, in the format color=”#7d7e82”. In CS5, we gained the ability to copy just the color’s hex code to the clipboard, like so: 5a6e6f. So now, to quickly get colors from a mockup in Photoshop over to your code, simply choose the format that works best for you, hop over to your editing tool of choice and hit Cmd/Ctrl-V, et voila.

Color Management: A Four-Part Series

Over on Photo.net, they have a fantastic, in-depth four-part series on color management, which is a topic that bewilders and perplexes even the most geeky among us. It’s a particularly important issue for photographers, print professionals, and others who do color-critical work. Check it out to demystify color management, and ensure that what you’re seeing on your screen matches what’s coming out of your printer.

How-To: The iPhone 3.0 SDK Graphic

How-to: Recreating the iPhone 3.0 SDK Graphic from Simon Abrams on Vimeo.

In this demo, I show you how to use Photoshop CS4 Extended's new advanced 3D capabilities to recreate the very cool graphic Apple uses on their iPhone SDK page.

Resources:

Metallic Layer Style

Apple's iPhone Developer page