What Color is at this Spot in my Image, Anyway?

The usual way to grab the code for a particular color in a region in your image is to use the eye-dropper tool in Photoshop or Adobe Illustrator, etc. In Lightroom, you can find them perhaps more easily.

Select the region you want to sample for color

The eye-dropper cursor does not show in this screenshot, but it is next to the upper left hand corner of the preview box.

  • Hover over different areas in your image and note the RBG percent values printed under the histogram. Each color red, green and blue has its own value, which is has a lightness in percent. 100% is white, 0% is black, and in between is that color., For instance, I hovered over a rose petal and got R 74 G 34 B 27%.

  • You can do this from anywhere in the Develop module in Lightroom.

  • But is is the most obvious if you use the White Balance eye-dropper in Develop’s Basic panel. Then you get a zoomed-in preview of the color region selected plus the numbers below there as well. Don’t bother to click to change the white balance.

  • Use a convertor program like
    https://convertingcolors.com/mass-conversion.html
    if you want to convert to regular RGB (with values between 0 and 255 instead of 0-100%), to Hue-Saturation-Luminance (HSL), to RYB (crudely), or to Hex. HSL is used a lot in other parts of Lightroom. Hex is a standard format; used in Photoshop, design, web site builders like Squarespace, and lots of other programs.

  • Other eye-droppers and adjustment wheels in Lightroom also show the RGB values below the histogram when hovering.