Please allow Eyedropper access for to the Smudge tool, at least when Finger Painting is on.
At present, when using the smudge tool, holding down the option key does nothing. You must switch to a regular brush, use the eyedropper (invoking it temporarily with the option key), then switch back to the smudge tool. This is awkward.
Actually pressing the Option or Alt key with Finger Painting selected toggles Finger Painting Off/On
Without Finger Painting checked the Option/Alt key toggles Finger Painting On/Off
To sample colors while the Smudge Tool is active you can press I for the Eyedropper Tool, select your color then release the I key which should take you back to the Smudge Tool.
Still though i agree it would be nice be able to access the Eyedropper directly while using the Smudge Tool.
I did see something about option/alt being a toggle for Finger Painting but found that that didn't actually work, so I thought maybe they abandoned it. I just checked again, and find that when Smudge is the active tool, option key does nothing at all.
I'm sort of puzzled why they would have broken option-for-eyedropper consistency in favor of a Finger Painting toggle. If I'm using Smudge, I usually want Finger Painting one way or the other for a long stretch, and I'm fine taking a trip to the top bar to change it. It's the eyedropper that comes into use with such frequency as to require a good shortcut.
I'd settle for holding down the I key instead, but in fact on my system (Photoshop 26.10.0), it acts as a hard switch to the eydropper. Which is just as well, because that's the behavior I expect: I key for hard switch to eyedropper, Opt for temporary switch.
Maybe I jinxed Photoshop with custom shortcuts. But even if the program were behaving as you say it does, I stand by my suggestion, both for conformity to Photoshop's other option-eyedropper patterns and for the importance of an eyedropper shortcut over a Finger Painting shortcut.
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