Eyedropper not changing color in real time

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February 16, 2025
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I am trying to get my eyedropper tool to change the color of my fill/stroke in real time as I am clicking and dragging it over new colors, but it will not do so. It will only change to a new color once I rest on the position, even while I am still holding it. I'm unsure how to resolve this issue, or how it started in the first place because it wasn't doing this an hour ago. My keys on my keyboard are very sensitive so I must have misclicked and pressed something. I'm on Windows 10, using the latest version of Illustrator.

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Ton Frederiks

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Maybe you switched to CPU Preview? CMD or Ctrl + E?

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nat_5794Author

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still didn't work. here's a video of my problem. it's a tad hard to show, but as I'm dragging around the eyedropper, it only selects the color when at rest. the popup panel doesn't show because of the way I recorded, but I use the color panel to show the type of effect I want to happen while moving while holding. it wasn't like this an hour before I posted the problem. Crtl + E didn't work

2025-02-16_05-30-45.zip

Ton Frederiks

Community Expert

I am not sure what I am looking at, do you have an object selected that you want to fill with a color? Near the end I see the color interactively changing when you move the eyedropper.

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