Sampling Color

Eyedropper

The Eyedropper tool allows you to sample a specific color from part of an object, shape, or image inside or outside of Illustrator. You can sample color, stroke weight, opacity, and other attributes and apply them to other objects to keep the appearance of objects consistent. To make this work smoothly, you will need to set the Eyedropper preferences to choose what it will sample and what it will apply to your selected object.

Double-click on the Eyedropper tool in the toolbar to open and set the preferences. In the Eyedropper preferences. You can choose what the Eyedropper will sample (left column) and what it will ...

Get Adobe Illustrator now with the O’Reilly learning platform.

O’Reilly members experience books, live events, courses curated by job role, and more from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers.