From the course: Drawing and Painting in Photoshop
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Eyedropper Tool - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Drawing and Painting in Photoshop
Eyedropper Tool
- [Instructor] There are plenty of ways to choose a new color, either by using the color picker or the color palette or the swatches palette. But the technique that we will actually be using most often is picking up a color that is already on our digital canvas. And for that, we have a special tool here in the toolbar, and it's the Eyedropper tool. With the Eyedropper tool, I can just click on a color on my digital canvas and it will be loaded as my new foreground color. That's a very quick way to pick up a color that I have already used in my artwork. And because this is used so many times during the work on the digital canvas, there is a prominent shortcut for the Eyedropper tool. If you click and hold the alt key, your tool changes into the Eyedropper tool. You can make a selection, pick your color, and if you release alt, you return to the tool that you used and the new color is loaded as your foreground color. Now, using the Eyedropper tool might look a little bit different on…
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