How-to use Eyedropper tool to pick color without transparency

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i have adobe illustrator 2026 version. My spec- i7 14th gen, 24 gb ram, 8gb 5050rtx. I have a transparent image on top of another image. i created a rectangle, and pick colour with eye dropper and clicked on tha image, even though i can see black colour below the transparent image, it did not pick black colour but picked white. if i remove the transparent image on top of it and then pick colour, then it picks black colour.
Before i had 2021 version, it picked black even though it was below the above transparent pixel image as we can absolutely see it. how to get that functionality of color pick in 2026 version.

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I had a similar issue selecting a colour that’s behind a stroke. The only fix I’ve found is to go back to version 29.2, before they added this ‘feature’

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Amelia Jack

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To get that old behavior back, just hold Shift while clicking with the Eyedropper; this tells Illustrator to sample the "visual" color of the pixels rather than the transparency settings of the top layer. You can also double-click the Eyedropper tool and uncheck "Appearance" under the "Picks Up" column to make it work more like the 2021 version by default.

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Arihant27628406l9ekAuthor

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It Didnt solve issue. I hold shift, ring came but when click it picked top image transparent not black. Ihave attached vidoe of problem and my eyedropper settings

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Bill Silbert

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As far as I can remember the eyedropper will always pick from the topmost object. The easiest workaround would be to select and lock the top image (Command (Mac)/Control (PC)-2 or use the Lock command under the View menu).

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