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The Tracing Image option is a powerful feature for quickly building a Web page based on
design comps. For details about this feature and how to use it with Dreamweaver AP ele-
ments, see Chapter 11.
Choosing Colors from an Onscreen Image
O
ne of the features found throughout Dreamweaver, the Eyedropper tool, is especially useful in the Page
Properties options. The Eyedropper tool appears whenever you open any of Dreamweaver’s color
swatches, such as those attached to the Background, Text, and Links colors. You can not only pick a color
from the Web-safe palette that appears, but you can also use the Eyedropper to select any color on any page—
including system colors such as those found in dialog boxes and menu strips.
To use the Eyedropper tool to choose a color for the background (or any of the other options) from an onscreen
image, follow these steps:
1. Insert your image on the page and, using the vertical scroll bar, position the Document window so
that the image and the Page Properties dialog box can be viewed simultaneously.
If your image is too big to fit both it and the Page Properties dialog box on the same screen, tempo-
rarily resize your image by dragging its sizing handles. You can restore the original image size when
you have finished by clicking the Refresh button on the Image Property inspector.
2. Open the Page Properties dialog box ...