Selective Eyedropper Tool Options | Illustrator Tutorial

In this Illustrator tutorial, learn how to use the eyedropper tool to select only certain parts of shapes and text like fill and stroke.
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[@pixelandbracket]

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[@alleefleming999]

I cannot tell you how many YEARS I've wasted trying to use the eye dropper wrong 🤦🏻‍♀️ I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THERE WAS OPTIONS FOR IT!!
Anyway, thank you soo much for this tip!! Loving your channel.

[@pixelandbracket]

Hahaha, it’s the little things 😁

[@MeettheCreatives]

hahahahah yo sameeeee!!!

[@darrenforster99]

That's really handy - I've been wondering for a while now how I get the eyedropper tool just to change the fill/stroke only - you'd think they'd make that either an option on the menu bar at the top or add it to an alt/ctrl key function - like alt + eyedropper = fill only and ctrl + eyedropper = stroke only rather than having to go in those options every time!!

[@Doodles1947]

Short, sweet, and very helpful. Thanks.

[@floralpattern1]

It would be useful if there were options with key shortcuts. For example if you held alt whilst using it, it only selected the color fill etc

[@marcodev3375]

How to change the stroke color by grabbing the another object fill color?

[@angel-qu5qq]

same question

[@fikrifauzan456]

​@@angel-qu5qq same question

[@IlikepurpleXP]

Why does illustrator make everything complex? Lol I just want to apply a fill color onto a stroke and it shouldnt involve this many steps to do so 😒

[@baalgopalstudio8566]

i m still wondering how to do that, why the hell they cant have eyedropper like photoshop?

[@christopherwidjaja3147]

Same. I still can't apply a colour of a fill to a fill of a stroke of another shape

[@mds9344]

@@christopherwidjaja3147 Not sure if this is what you are looking for, but if you have your stroke(s) selected, hold shift while using the eye dropper on a fill color. Will apply that fill color to your strokes.

[@sargetheshelterdog8291]

have not seen this explained anywhere else. Thanks

[@pixelandbracket]

welcome! just posting random tidbits I find out

[@Videominuting]

Beautiful simple workflow improvement.

[@andrewserna7119]

Exactly what I needed! Thank You for this.

[@anaksemandr]

супер! как раз то что искал! :) спасибо, дружище! :)

[@bielsabas4407]

Thank you!

[@HistoryHeroes]

thanks so much!!

[@arbhavesh]

thanks a lot bro

[@99xara99]

Perfect thanks.

[@sheikhmuhammadadnan3]

Nice

[@brycesdad27]

I have a question.... why won’t it sample colors from a placed raster graphic?

[@mahbubalam4190]

I do want to change character paragraph style, but it is picking color also. Is there any way? Pls help

[@dashaluna2368]

Hello, I've got multiple strokes on a path and I'm trying to use eyedropper to re-apply them to other objects, but it seems to only pick up one. Is there any trick for that? Thanks :)

[@FaizKaKitchen]

I'll suggest the Magic Wand Tool, I can be wrong though.

[@izzie833]

cool

[@KristherLouisVidal]

Saved me from my Frustration

[@DavidBichoHasBeard]

Still no solution for picking a color from an image, and apply that as a Stroke color.

[@FreakStyler]

Why can't it just work like every other eye dropper, just grab the pixel color, and whatever weird stuff they want to do they just put into a new tool.

[@pixelandbracket]

Because there’s two colors, the fill and stroke. It does work that way if you have no objects selected, you can pick up whatever color you want

[@sagihaviv5675]

lol less effiency, how can we use fill and stroke faster? without double clicking always

[@Hesamm715]

Focal Fill not Local

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[@lilthunder238]

am i the only one here because of school