HUD Color Picker

Color and Tone Adjustments
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Your choices stick across every tutorial on this device.

In Photoshop CS5 and newer, you can use the HUD Color Picker. With the Brush Tool selected, hold Alt Shift Right-Click (Windows) or Ctrl Option Command Click (macOS).

HUD Color Picker strip open over the canvas with the Brush tool active for picking a brush color

To use the color wheel HUD Color Picker instead, press Ctrl K (Windows) or Command K (macOS) to open the Preferences window. From the General tab, select Color Wheel under the HUD Color Picker drop-down.

Then follow the keyboard combination described above to get the Wheel HUD Color Picker.

Color Wheel version of the HUD Color Picker enabled from the General tab of Preferences