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Using the Eyedropper tool

Using the Eyedropper tool

The Eyedropper tool allows you to sample colors and apply them to different objects in your applications. So on the Stage here I have some artwork, and let's say I wanted to reuse some of the colors in it. Maybe I want to reuse this off-white color that's used in the olive oil bottle. So to capture that color I can select the Eyedropper tool, notice the keyboard shortcut is I, and then I can hover my mouse over that color. Then when I click the color, Flash automatically updates my fill color to whatever I selected with the Eyedropper. I could then use this fill color to create artwork. Note that when you use the Eyedropper tool, Flash automatically goes to the Paint Bucket tool so that you can paint a fill with the color that you just selected. There is another way to access the Eyedropper, which is actually my preferred way to use it. If you click on any color swatch in Flash, for example, the fill color or the stroke color picker in the Properties panel you can pick a Color Swatch…

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