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nat_5794
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February 16, 2025
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Eyedropper not changing color in real time

  • 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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Ton FrederiksCommunity Expert
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February 16, 2025

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

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nat_5794Author
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February 16, 2025

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

Anna_Lander
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Anna_LanderCommunity Expert
Community Expert
February 17, 2025

If I see well you take a color from the raster image. Is it so? If yes, check the Eyedropper settings and turn Off the main checkbox in the Pick Up column, keeping all other checks On. If the main checkbox is On, the Eyedropper takes the raster images as "empty" objects and fills/strokes them as None.

 

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