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I have been having this issue for a while on various different versions of illustrator.
There seems to be a bug where I am not able to recolour certain objects without having to double click and then double click again and then one more time to open the objects up (even though i did not group these) and only then can I re-colour, I think it usually happens on certain objects when make a copy of them. It's just behaving very strange and it's making it very difficult to get anything done!
Help with this would be much appreciated. I have attached a video to help Illustrate the issue.
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Take a look at it in the Appearance panel. It's a group.
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Thanks for the help however thats not it unfortunely: Take a look at the screen shot, appearance panel still shows different colour to the object itself, thats after I use the eye dropper tool to try to get the yellow on the blue object
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The color of the "Contents" is on top of the color you applied.
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Let me outline the steps I took as I am not sure I am following:-
- I selected my object I want to recolour (lets call this object A)
- I select the eye dropper tool
- I sample a colour from another object within the same artboard I want to apply over object A
From my understanding and how Illustrator has always worked, this colour should now be applied over the top of Object A. I also have the same issue when using the swatch panel and trying to apply over object A. Its never been the case before I started having this issue where I needed to delve into the apperance panel, if thats the case why bother having an eye dropper tool and a swatch panel if you cant simply click on the colour and it instantly apply over your object.
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The eyedropper tool picks up appearances.
If you want to pick up just the color, hold down the shift key.
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Holding down shift makes no difference, as I said earlier even if I use the swatch panel to change the colour it does not change...
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If you already created that additional fill in the Appearance panel, then holding down shift will not help. So without seeing your particular file, this cannot be solved.