Matching Colors

Did you ever see a color on a file or webpage that you wanted to duplicate, but could not find it in your color options. Well, there are some steps you can take to match that one-of-a-kind color.

First of all, go to the file or webpage that contains the color.

• Press the Print Screen key on your keyboard. (If you did not know, print screen makes a copy of whatever is on your monitor at the time you press the key, it does not print the screen, it copies the image to a clipboard; using the paste function will paste the image in a program of your choice.)
• So, now you have a copy of the screen, open the Paint program, (a shortcut: press the windows key + R, then type pbrush), when Paint opens, go to edit, then paste.
• The window you copied should paste into Paint.
• Click the “pick color” tool (looks like an eye-dropper).
• Single click on the color you like.
• Go to “Colors” on the menu, edit colors, define custom colors.
• Notice the numbers next to the Red, Green, & Blue, write down these numbers.
• The numbers you wrote down will make up the custom color.
• In a new document;
  • Using the drawing toolbar, draw a rectangle
  • Double click on the rectangle to open the format menu
  • Colors and Lines tab, click the fill color drop-down menu
  • Go to More Colors, click the custom tab
  • In the RGB (red, green, blue) boxes, key in the numbers you wrote down previously, click ok
• You can use this trick for shapes, backgrounds, and PowerPoint slides.