D.25 The Dropper Tool (8.6)

click

Pick fill color

-click

Pick stroke color

drag

Average fill color

-drag

Average stroke color

Click applies the color under the cursor to the current selection. Dragging a radius calculates the average color of a circular area. If a gradient handle (in the Gradient tool) is selected, that handle gets the color instead of the entire object.

-click, -drag, -click, -drag

Pick inverse color

If is pressed, picking the color (with or without , by click or by drag) picks the inverse of the color.

Copy color

This copies the color under the cursor to the clipboard, as text in RRGGBBAA format (eight hexadecimal digits).