eyedropper-type tool?

[Adam Richardson]

The color palette can do a lot of hidden stuff in OS X - there's a good article on it in the current Macworld, probably available online also.

Not sure if by "stamp" you really meant stamp or brush. The stamp just reproduces things, whereas the brush acts like a sophisticated eyedropper. I believe it's not on by default and I think it's also not available in the customize toolbar dialog for some weird reason.

You have to get it by going into OG preferences, selecting the toolbar tab, and manually turn on Style Brush. Then it will either appear in your toolbar or you'll have to add it with customize toolbar (don't remember).

Clicking and holding on the brush icon in the toolbar will allow you to choose what attributes it picks up.

Option-clicking with the brush on an object picks up the chosen attributes, clicking on other objects will apply them.

Once you get it loaded, the brush is by far the quickest way to apply attributes from one object to another. It also works with groups (it will "jump in to the group" to let you subselect either to pick up or apply attributes) then jump out when you're done.

You'll notice the tips of the bristles change color depending on what you've picked.

Hope this helps,

Adam

On Thursday, January 19, 2006, at 04:25PM, Stephanie Hornung <stephanie at metaweb.com> wrote:

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>On Jan 19, 2006, at 4:02 PM, Greg Titus wrote:
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>> On Jan 19, 2006, at 3:58 PM, Trevor Harmon wrote:
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>>> On Jan 19, 2006, at 3:34 PM, Stephanie Hornung wrote:
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>>>> has anyone found a good way to approximate an eyedropper tool for  
>>>> copying colors?  i assume i'm supposed to use the stamp tool, but  
>>>> that never seems to work right  -- i.e., if you have shapes grouped.
>>>
>>> The Mac OS X color picker has an eyedropper built-in. That is,  
>>> when you click the Inspector button to choose a color, you can  
>>> click the magnifying glass, then point at the color you want and  
>>> click to select it.
>>
>> Also, the "Summary" inspector will show you the fill and stroke  
>> colors for the selected object. You can drag the little color chit  
>> from the display in the inspector over any other object to color it  
>> the same way.
>>
>> Hope this helps,
>> 	- Greg
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>wow thanks!  i never realized the magnifying glass was like an  
>eyedropper!
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