Color picker in Gradiant Fill?

[Jeffrey Kaplan]

Elements 5 in Windows.

I'm trying to "paint over" a distraction in a photo. What is behind
the object is both textured (cloth) and gradient in color due to the
way its lit.

The problem I'm having is that I cannot figure out how to use the
eye-dropper tool, or anything else, to enable me to pick from the image
itself the two ends of the color gradient.

With the Gradient Tool dialog open, I can see its color picker, and I
can hover the cursor over the spot I want to take the color from in the
photo and see the RGB values in the Info pallet, but I have also not
been able to find a way (at least so far) to enter those values into
the Gradient tool's color picker as an alternative to simply click-
picking the color directly from the photo.

[paul405]

hi there .
can you not remove the item you want , from the picture , and then
place it into another background ???

just an idea


paul

Post by Jeffrey Kaplan
Elements 5 in Windows.
I'm trying to "paint over" a distraction in a photo. What is behind
the object is both textured (cloth) and gradient in color due to the
way its lit.
The problem I'm having is that I cannot figure out how to use the
eye-dropper tool, or anything else, to enable me to pick from the image
itself the two ends of the color gradient.
With the Gradient Tool dialog open, I can see its color picker, and I
can hover the cursor over the spot I want to take the color from in the
photo and see the RGB values in the Info pallet, but I have also not
been able to find a way (at least so far) to enter those values into
the Gradient tool's color picker as an alternative to simply click-
picking the color directly from the photo.
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