# background page color

**URL:** <https://discourse.softpress.com/t/background-page-color/2862>\
**Category:** Freeway\
**Created:** [October 4, 2008, 11:16pm UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/background-page-color/2862 "2008-10-04T23:16:55Z")\
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**Author:** ![Jerry\_Pruce](https://discourse.softpress.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/j/91b2a8/32.png) [@Jerry\_Pruce](https://discourse.softpress.com/u/Jerry_Pruce)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 11:16pm UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/background-page-color/2862/1 "2008-10-04T23:16:55Z")

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I designed the pages for my website in photoshop CS2(Mac).  
How do I copy or import the exact background color into Freeway pro?

Your advice and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.

jerry  
OM Publishing

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**Author:** ![Dick\_Tapsall](https://discourse.softpress.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Dick\_Tapsall](https://discourse.softpress.com/u/Dick_Tapsall)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 11:29pm UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/background-page-color/2862/2 "2008-10-04T23:29:41Z")

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In ‘Utilities’ you should have a nifty little app called ‘Digital Colour Meter.’ You can use this to get an exact RGB number from your Photoshop file that you then use in Freeway.

Hope this is useful.

All best wishes

Dick

On 5 Oct 2008, at 00:16, Jerry Pruce wrote:

> I designed the pages for my website in photoshop CS2(Mac).  
> How do I copy or import the exact background color into Freeway pro?
> 
> Your advice and suggestions would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> jerry  
> OM Publishing
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**Author:** ![David\_McCallum](https://discourse.softpress.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/ec9cab/32.png) [@David\_McCallum](https://discourse.softpress.com/u/David_McCallum)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 11:35pm UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/background-page-color/2862/3 "2008-10-04T23:35:59Z")

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In PS use the eyedropper tool to select the colour that you want to use from your image.

This colour will now populate the front most swatch in the tool palette.

Double click that switch to show you the color picker and the hex code for your colour will be displayed at the bottom of the first column preceded by a #

Use that colour as your background colour in FW by creating a new colour in the colour inspector (click the cog) and enter the hex value you got from PS.

David

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**Author:** ![Paul\_Bradforth](https://discourse.softpress.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/p/ee59a6/32.png) [@Paul\_Bradforth](https://discourse.softpress.com/u/Paul_Bradforth)\
**Post date:** [October 4, 2008, 11:56pm UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/background-page-color/2862/4 "2008-10-04T23:56:35Z")

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On 5 Oct 2008, at 00:16, Jerry Pruce wrote:

> I designed the pages for my website in photoshop CS2(Mac).  
> How do I copy or import the exact background color into Freeway pro?

The Photoshop colour picker has a Hex colour panel which will tell you  
the Hex numbers for the colour you’ve chosen for the background, which  
you can then enter in Freeway.

best wishes,

Paul Bradforth

[http://www.paulbradforth.com](http://www.paulbradforth.com)

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**Author:** ![Dan\_J](https://discourse.softpress.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/d/f19dbf/32.png) [@Dan\_J](https://discourse.softpress.com/u/Dan_J)\
**Post date:** [October 5, 2008, 12:57am UTC](https://discourse.softpress.com/t/background-page-color/2862/5 "2008-10-05T00:57:22Z")

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Yeah, I vote the HEX method because even the Apple iDropper doesn’t always get the exact color’s. Copy the HEX and past the character/digit part, not the # part, into the box and there you go.

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