Illustrator Irritation.
Mintsauce (1004 points) | Fri, 2009-07-24 16:15I consistently think it should work like this, and I am consistently wrong.
When clicking on foreground colour in Illustrator the Colour Picker dialogue comes up. But I have no eye-dropper tool to pick colours from my design, I can only use the dialogue. That's not cool.
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An eyedropper option certainly would be nice (unless it's there and I"m missing it).
That sucks. In Photoshop you can go out of the pickers boundaries, not in Illustrator. One would think these features are consistent and even the same piece of code, but they aren't for some reason.
The rest of Adobe's product line are software apps they bought elsewhere (even InDesign is just PageMaker redressed).
This means none of their software is built from the same template, unfortunately. I love Adobe software but this one thing is what's keeping them from being completely 100% dominant.
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I wish they'd kept InDesign as intuitive as PageMaker was back in the day.
Mara
You can do it with the eyedropper tool.
Don't use the color picker.
Select the eyedropper tool
See that you have a website or a picture open and that you can see a part of it where you want to sample from.
Click with eyedropper tool on your artboard and keep holding down the mouse.
Now move the mouse over the subject where you want to sample from, release the mouse when you are happy, and this will be the foreground color.
When doing this and you have an object selected, this object will be filled with your color.
Hope this helps
fidel
Would still be nice if they changed it though.
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That's what I thought, thanks for the clarification.
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