Photoshop: Change eyedropper sample size

 One simple setting in Photoshop can make your life a little easier and your work a little smarter. That may be a bit of a hyperbole, but altering the sample size of the eyedropper tool in Photoshop from the default setting makes sense most if not all of the time. The how and why of this easy configuration setting will be covered in this Tech-Recipe.The eyedropper tool in Photoshop is used to slurp up a color visible on the screen. The technical term for slurp is sample and the process seems simple: hold the eyedropper icon over a pixel of the image and click to sample that color. While the eyedropper works well in that simple way, noise in the image can cause significant variation from pixel to pixel in an area that should be about the same color. For example, a small 10x10 pixel area in this image on the left is expanded on the right: The 100 pixels in this square are from an area that should be neutral (the dish was white) and uniform in color. However, the pixels vary in the Lab col... Read More