Hi DonJ,

there are ways to achieve this other than having to open Photoshop, but sadly PowerPoint does not have an in built bitmap image colour picker tool.

Inetia (http://www.inetia.com/en/eyedropper/) have a great little app called Eyedropper, that is perfect for the job. You can download the latest version from the link.

It is an extremely useful little freeware app that lets you get the RGB and CMYK values of any pixel anywhere on the screen from any program, or software that is running. So in that respect its even more powerful than PhotoShop as you don't have to open the image in Photoshop and then use the "pciker" tool to get the RGB values and copy those into PowerPoint. With Eyedropper you can simply have the bitmap image, photograph, or graphic in PowerPoint move the pointer over the pixel you want the colour values of and voila! Except you're still in PowerPoint! Neat?

If you're on the Macintosh platform DonJ then you already have a "pixel-picker" utility.

From Finder, choose Go, Applications. Open the Utilities folder and doubleclick DigitalColor Meter.

Hope this is of some help.