Hi there. In this video,
we're going to look at using the eyedropper tool and we've
stolen a color out of there and put it into our box.
We're stealing a color from this that matches exactly.
We've also stolen the subheading,
font and color and size and reuse that a couple of times,
completely bypassing the complex paragraph styles,
a nice, quick, easy way,
we love the eyedropper tool.
Lets go do. First thing is let's open up our exercise files.
So go to File, Open.
In our design exercise files,
there's one called eyedropper tool.
Open them up. So a couple of things we can do with the eyedropper,
one is we can steal colors from images.
We did this with logos earlier.
So I've got this box selected here,
grab my eyedropper tool.
Now we don't want the color thing towards the stage,
we want to grab the eyedropper tool which is underneath.
So hold down on the color thing too and then select eyedropper tool.
What we can do is you make sure this is selected first with the black arrow,
then just pick a color from here and we're going to pick that
one. It has actually worked.
If I click off and click in the background,
it's actually pulled up for the stroke.
The reason it did that is if I have it selected,
grab my eyedropper tool,
it's because down here my stroke is at the front.
In design things, I mean to put it there.
So what I can do now is I can take this double arrow which
switches it around or before I do it,
which is probably more useful.
I'm undoing until those back to normal is I'm going to bring the fill to the front.
That's the front there now,
telling in design I mean you,
the fill, and I'm going to pick a color. This one.
Same with this black arrow,
click on this guy, grab the eyedropper tool,
make sure the fills at front,
if that's what you want to work on and a pill a color from this.
Those are horrible colors,
that are very close to each other.
So I'm going to pick a different one,
maybe a red from in here.
Another thing we can do is with the eyedropper is using fonts.
We looked at paragraph styles earlier on, which is really cool.
But say you not using paragraph styles because
you're just working on something small little fly.
You don't need all that extra level of complexity with styles.
So what you're going to do is highlight the subheading here and this guy.
I want to steal this.
So grab the eyedropper tool and say I want you, which is really cool,
gets even better because I don't
have to then select this texts here and try and do it again.
The cursor has changed.
so it's like full of that style now. So I can keep using it.
Watch this I like you, I like you.
I can keep going through and doing this.
So eyedropper tool is great for stealing both colors,
and stealing fonts and sizes and colors.
One last use if I go off to my black arrow and back to my eyedropper tool,
that gets rid of that thing that I had.
Actually, I want to grab the type tool,
highlight this text here.
Grabbed the eyedropper tool, and I want to steal this color here, brown.
Highlight this text again with a type tool,
grab the eyedropper tool,
and I want to steal the rate.
Great. So the eyedropper tool can be used for stealing colors and fonts.
That will be it for this video.
Let's go and do the next one.