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Eye dropper

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Last updated 10 months ago

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Use this tool to pick a color from the canvas. We can either tap or drag. When dragged, a preview popover will show up with a zoomed-in of the area right underneath the pencil to help us pick the pixel more easily.

This can also be activated by or .

The eye dropper can only work with the content on the canvas, for reference images, there is a different way of picking colors.

Only selected layers

When this option is enabled, they eye dropper will only pick colors from selected layers instead of all layers on the canvas.

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long pressing on the canvas
holding the little square in between the sliders