So I figured out the vexing question about the eyedropper tool and using it in Photoshop and Illustrator to choose colors from a place other than those programs.
To do this, choose the eyedropper tool in either application. Then move your cursor over your work area. Click the mouse button and hold it down. Then drag your cursor over the color you wish to choose from elsewhere (web browser, desktop background, etc.) Then let go of the mouse button when you are over the color you wish to choose.
This works in both Illustrator and Photoshop, but sadly not in InDesign.
And on a side note (shameless plug), that place I work at, STS, has a program called Ask A Trainer on Sunday, Monday, and Tuesday nights from 7-9 in the Open Book Cafe (1st floor, College Library). The purpose of the service is to answer software questions students may have. So if you have a question about some of the software we are using for the 411 projects you can check the STS Web site to see if a trainer familiar with that software is working, and then come in and get help. If the person there does not know the answer: we take your email, ask the rest of our staff the question, and guarantee an answer within a couple of days. I'm working tonight and I'm usually bored.
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It really works! Thanks so much! It is SO helpful to be able to do this. And shameless plug or no, it is great to know about Ask A Trainer, what a great service!
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