Adobe® Illustrator® 10 Classroom in a Book®

Copying paint attributes

Adobe Illustrator lets you copy paint attributes of objects (such as their fill and stroke color) in various ways and apply the attributes to other objects.

You'll use the eyedropper tool to copy colors from your artwork into the Color palette. Also called sampling, copying colors lets you replicate paint attributes even when you don't know their exact values.

1.	Select the eyedropper tool () in the toolbox.
2.	In the bottom left rectangle, click the orange brim of the hat to sample its color. This action picks up the fill and stroke attributes of the hat brim and displays them in the Color palette. By default, the eyedropper ...