Creating a color palette

The colors you choose for your cover elements should relate to and enhance the colors in your cover image.…It's a simple and an effective technique to sample colors from the image and then apply…these colors to your cover elements.…There are a few different ways we can go about this.…Before I sample colors from the cover image, I'm going to go to the View menu and choose…Display Performance > High Quality Display so that I have an accurate representation…of the colors that I want to sample.…

I'm then going to press my I key to choose my Eyedropper tool.…In the previous movie, I locked the cover image layer.…I'll now need to go to that layer and unlock it so that I can sample colors from it.…Let's zoom in so that we get a closer view, and I want to get a nice gold color from this dress.…Now with color, context is everything, so the color that you sample may end up looking…a little bit different when you see it as just a flat color swatch.…

I could try again because that's not quite what I'm after, so I'm going to come to the…