User Guide

Canvas 12 User Guide
Using the Color Dropper
Use the Color Dropper tool to select and apply colors. The Color Dropper tool is located in the Toolbox.
The Color Dropper can select colors from any object in a document.
Colors you select with the Color Dropper become the current foreground or background colors for
painting and the current pen inks and fill inks for new vector objects.
This tool helps keep color consistency within a document and is useful for photo retouching.
It can also help identify colors from documents imported into Canvas.
To use the Color Dropper tool:
1.
Click the Color Dropper in the Toolbox.
2. Click on the color in your document that you want to select.
Color Dropper modes
Select the Color Dropper tool to view the settings in the Properties bar. Select a mode. The mode
remains set unless you change the setting in the Properties bar.
Object Ink In vector or text objects, the Color Dropper selects object inks —color,
gradient, symbol, texture, pattern, and hatch inks. It does not take into
account transfer modes or transparency effects.
If you click an object’s stroke, you select its pen ink; if you click an
object’s interior, you select its fill ink. In the case of paint objects, which
do not have inks, the color you click is selected as a color ink.
For example, if you click a gradient ink with the Color Dropper, it selects
the gradient ink.
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