Archive of October 2009

October 15

For posterity: when Illustrator's eyedropper tool won't sample (pick up) colors from placed photos or raster images

I thought Adobe Illustrator CS4’s eyedropper tool was broken (or actually had less functionality than CS3) when it wouldn’t pick up colors from placed raster images (screenshots, in my case), but it turns out an odd setting just needed to be switched:

Double-click the eyedropper tool in the tool palette and un-check “Appearance” in both sets of checkboxes.

This took me way to long to figure out, and I have no idea what it means or why it works. Searching Adobe’s forums was fruitless and nothing quickly matched my Google searches, so hopefully this post will benefit a fellow confused soul at some point.

09:01 PM