How to determine rgb value from bitmap?

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sharkford
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How to determine rgb value from bitmap?

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I've pasted a bitmap into a Draw document and now I want to create surrounding objects using the exact colours the bitmap uses ... bit I don't see a way to inquire about the rgb values of colours in a bitmap. The eyedropper tool comes close, in that it lets me select a colour in the bitmap; but it doesn't tell me how to re-create that colour elsewhere.

How to do this?

Thanks!

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Re: How to determine rgb value from bitmap?

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Tools > Options > OO.org > Colors, or Format > Area > Colors will allow you to define new colors using RGB or CMYK coordinate values. Determining those values from an image has to be done by other software--OOo cannot do it, as far as I know.

You'll have to get some utility that can read screen colors and give you the RGB values, then transfer those manually to the OOo colors dialog.
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