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# Eye dropper

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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.&#x20;

This can also be activated by [long pressing on the canvas](/settings/drawing.md#quick-color-picker) or [holding the little square in between the sliders](/interface-and-gestures/gestures-and-quick-actions.md#quick-eye-dropper).

The eye dropper can only work with the content on the canvas, for reference images, there is a different way of picking colors. [Read more >](/additional-features/reference-images.md)

### 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.

### Palette match

Automatically select the closest color from the active palette. Really handy when we want to work with a limited color count and in indexed mode