Can’t get rid of "extra"

+++Bobby "O"+++ wrote:

I must have done something inadvertently in order to get an "icon" on my picture. Looks like what you get when you sample a color (circle with small lines at North, South, East & West – and the number "1" next to it). I don’t know how I got it there – but also don’t know how to get rid of it. Can someone help me? Thanks…….

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I assume you’re talking about a picture in Photoshop, or maybe Elements. I’ll speak to Photoshop, and assume Elements behaves the same. This is the Color Sampler tool. It is in the same group of tools as the Eyedropper tool, and can be accessed from the flyout menu of the Eyedropper, or can also be set by clicking with the Eyedropper IF THE SHIFT KEY IS BEING HELD DOWN. If you select the Eyedropper tool and hover the cursor over it and press ‘shift’, you can click/drag it from place to place, including OUT OF YOUR PICTURE. When it is set (you can set up to 4 at a time), the point(s) gets monitored in the Info palette, so you can follow the effects of levels or curves adjustments on those precise points.

Mike G. wrote:

+++Bobby "O"+++ wrote:

I must have done something inadvertently in order to get an "icon" on my picture. Looks like what you get when you sample a color (circle with small lines at North, South, East & West – and the number "1" next to it). I don’t know how I got it there – but also don’t know how to get rid of it. Can someone help me? Thanks……. .

I assume you’re talking about a picture in Photoshop, or maybe Elements. I’ll speak to Photoshop, and assume Elements behaves the same. This is the Color Sampler tool. It is in the same group of tools as the Eyedropper tool, and can be accessed from the flyout menu of the Eyedropper, or can also be set by clicking with the Eyedropper IF THE SHIFT KEY IS BEING HELD DOWN. If you select the Eyedropper tool and hover the cursor over it and press ‘shift’, you can click/drag it from place to place, including OUT OF YOUR PICTURE. When it is set (you can set up to 4 at a time), the point(s) gets monitored in the Info palette, so you can follow the effects of levels or curves adjustments on those precise points.

Oops! Eff on my face. Sorry about the comment about assuming Photoshop. I just spent several hours in rec.photo.digital and I guess I lost track of that I had switched to a Photoshop group. Sorry. :>(

Mike G. wrote:

+++Bobby "O"+++ wrote:

I must have done something inadvertently in order to get an "icon" on my picture. Looks like what you get when you sample a color (circle with small lines at North, South, East & West – and the number "1" next to it). I don’t know how I got it there – but also don’t know how to get rid of it. Can someone help me? Thanks……. .

I assume you’re talking about a picture in Photoshop, or maybe Elements. I’ll speak to Photoshop, and assume Elements behaves the same. This is the Color Sampler tool. It is in the same group of tools as the Eyedropper tool, and can be accessed from the flyout menu of the Eyedropper, or can also be set by clicking with the Eyedropper IF THE SHIFT KEY IS BEING HELD DOWN. If you select the Eyedropper tool and hover the cursor over it and press ‘shift’, you can click/drag it from place to place, including OUT OF YOUR PICTURE. When it is set (you can set up to 4 at a time), the point(s) gets monitored in the Info palette, so you can follow the effects of levels or curves adjustments on those precise points.

Oops! Egg on my face. Sorry about the comment about assuming Photoshop. I just spent several hours in rec.photo.digital and I guess I lost track of that I had switched to a Photoshop group. Sorry. :>(

"+++Bobby "O"+++" wrote in message

I must have done something inadvertently in order to get an "icon" on my picture. Looks like what you get when you sample a color (circle with small lines at North, South, East & West – and the number "1" next to it). I don’t know how I got it there – but also don’t know how to get rid of it. Can someone help me? Thanks…….

Ctrl+H maybe or View > Extras ? sorry PC don’t know Mac shortcut

"+++Bobby "O"+++" wrote in message

I must have done something inadvertently in order to get an "icon" on my picture. Looks like what you get when you sample a color (circle with small lines at North, South, East & West – and the number "1" next to it). I don’t know how I got it there – but also don’t know how to get rid of it. Can someone help me? Thanks…….

Sorry just realised what you are talking about 🙁 it’s a bit late at night try going to the ‘colour sampler tool’ short cut "I" then on the control bar click "clear".

You were right in the first place – what you wrote below worked. Thanks…..

"Mike G." wrote in message

+++Bobby "O"+++ wrote:

I must have done something inadvertently in order to get an "icon" on my picture. Looks like what you get when you sample a color (circle with small lines at North, South, East & West – and the number "1" next to it). I don’t know how I got it there – but also don’t know how to get rid of it. Can someone help me? Thanks……. .

I assume you’re talking about a picture in Photoshop, or maybe Elements. I’ll speak to Photoshop, and assume Elements behaves the same. This is the Color Sampler tool. It is in the same group of tools as the Eyedropper tool, and can be accessed from the flyout menu of the Eyedropper, or can also be set by clicking with the Eyedropper IF THE SHIFT KEY IS BEING HELD DOWN. If you select the Eyedropper tool and hover the cursor over it and press ‘shift’, you can click/drag it from place to place, including OUT OF YOUR PICTURE. When it is set (you can set up to 4 at a time), the point(s) gets monitored in the Info palette, so you can follow the effects of levels or curves adjustments on those precise points.