1 00:00:06,530 --> 00:00:08,700 Hi there. In this video, 2 00:00:08,700 --> 00:00:10,770 we're going to look at using the eyedropper tool and we've 3 00:00:10,770 --> 00:00:13,350 stolen a color out of there and put it into our box. 4 00:00:13,350 --> 00:00:15,980 We're stealing a color from this that matches exactly. 5 00:00:15,975 --> 00:00:18,465 We've also stolen the subheading, 6 00:00:18,465 --> 00:00:21,365 font and color and size and reuse that a couple of times, 7 00:00:21,360 --> 00:00:24,300 completely bypassing the complex paragraph styles, 8 00:00:24,300 --> 00:00:25,590 a nice, quick, easy way, 9 00:00:25,590 --> 00:00:26,960 we love the eyedropper tool. 10 00:00:26,955 --> 00:00:30,815 Lets go do. First thing is let's open up our exercise files. 11 00:00:30,810 --> 00:00:32,450 So go to File, Open. 12 00:00:32,445 --> 00:00:35,555 In our design exercise files, 13 00:00:35,550 --> 00:00:36,880 there's one called eyedropper tool. 14 00:00:36,875 --> 00:00:40,045 Open them up. So a couple of things we can do with the eyedropper, 15 00:00:40,040 --> 00:00:42,410 one is we can steal colors from images. 16 00:00:42,410 --> 00:00:44,110 We did this with logos earlier. 17 00:00:44,105 --> 00:00:45,655 So I've got this box selected here, 18 00:00:45,650 --> 00:00:46,900 grab my eyedropper tool. 19 00:00:46,900 --> 00:00:49,130 Now we don't want the color thing towards the stage, 20 00:00:49,130 --> 00:00:51,380 we want to grab the eyedropper tool which is underneath. 21 00:00:51,380 --> 00:00:55,510 So hold down on the color thing too and then select eyedropper tool. 22 00:00:55,510 --> 00:00:59,320 What we can do is you make sure this is selected first with the black arrow, 23 00:00:59,320 --> 00:01:01,490 then just pick a color from here and we're going to pick that 24 00:01:01,490 --> 00:01:05,490 one. It has actually worked. 25 00:01:05,490 --> 00:01:07,490 If I click off and click in the background, 26 00:01:07,490 --> 00:01:08,990 it's actually pulled up for the stroke. 27 00:01:08,990 --> 00:01:11,890 The reason it did that is if I have it selected, 28 00:01:11,885 --> 00:01:13,265 grab my eyedropper tool, 29 00:01:13,265 --> 00:01:16,055 it's because down here my stroke is at the front. 30 00:01:16,055 --> 00:01:18,425 In design things, I mean to put it there. 31 00:01:18,425 --> 00:01:20,995 So what I can do now is I can take this double arrow which 32 00:01:20,990 --> 00:01:23,840 switches it around or before I do it, 33 00:01:23,840 --> 00:01:25,100 which is probably more useful. 34 00:01:25,100 --> 00:01:29,040 I'm undoing until those back to normal is I'm going to bring the fill to the front. 35 00:01:29,035 --> 00:01:30,885 That's the front there now, 36 00:01:30,885 --> 00:01:32,745 telling in design I mean you, 37 00:01:32,745 --> 00:01:35,725 the fill, and I'm going to pick a color. This one. 38 00:01:35,720 --> 00:01:37,430 Same with this black arrow, 39 00:01:37,430 --> 00:01:39,320 click on this guy, grab the eyedropper tool, 40 00:01:39,320 --> 00:01:40,540 make sure the fills at front, 41 00:01:40,535 --> 00:01:44,005 if that's what you want to work on and a pill a color from this. 42 00:01:44,005 --> 00:01:46,455 Those are horrible colors, 43 00:01:46,450 --> 00:01:48,110 that are very close to each other. 44 00:01:48,110 --> 00:01:49,430 So I'm going to pick a different one, 45 00:01:49,430 --> 00:01:51,600 maybe a red from in here. 46 00:01:52,340 --> 00:01:56,940 Another thing we can do is with the eyedropper is using fonts. 47 00:01:56,940 --> 00:01:59,970 We looked at paragraph styles earlier on, which is really cool. 48 00:01:59,970 --> 00:02:01,880 But say you not using paragraph styles because 49 00:02:01,880 --> 00:02:03,870 you're just working on something small little fly. 50 00:02:03,870 --> 00:02:07,720 You don't need all that extra level of complexity with styles. 51 00:02:07,715 --> 00:02:11,725 So what you're going to do is highlight the subheading here and this guy. 52 00:02:11,720 --> 00:02:13,030 I want to steal this. 53 00:02:13,025 --> 00:02:16,915 So grab the eyedropper tool and say I want you, which is really cool, 54 00:02:16,910 --> 00:02:18,950 gets even better because I don't 55 00:02:18,950 --> 00:02:21,320 have to then select this texts here and try and do it again. 56 00:02:21,320 --> 00:02:23,330 The cursor has changed. 57 00:02:23,330 --> 00:02:27,560 so it's like full of that style now. So I can keep using it. 58 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:31,150 Watch this I like you, I like you. 59 00:02:31,150 --> 00:02:33,920 I can keep going through and doing this. 60 00:02:33,915 --> 00:02:36,915 So eyedropper tool is great for stealing both colors, 61 00:02:36,915 --> 00:02:39,915 and stealing fonts and sizes and colors. 62 00:02:39,910 --> 00:02:44,150 One last use if I go off to my black arrow and back to my eyedropper tool, 63 00:02:44,150 --> 00:02:46,190 that gets rid of that thing that I had. 64 00:02:46,190 --> 00:02:48,250 Actually, I want to grab the type tool, 65 00:02:48,245 --> 00:02:50,035 highlight this text here. 66 00:02:50,030 --> 00:02:55,720 Grabbed the eyedropper tool, and I want to steal this color here, brown. 67 00:02:56,300 --> 00:02:59,190 Highlight this text again with a type tool, 68 00:02:59,190 --> 00:03:00,330 grab the eyedropper tool, 69 00:03:00,330 --> 00:03:01,680 and I want to steal the rate. 70 00:03:01,680 --> 00:03:05,480 Great. So the eyedropper tool can be used for stealing colors and fonts. 71 00:03:05,480 --> 00:03:07,180 That will be it for this video. 72 00:03:07,175 --> 00:03:09,635 Let's go and do the next one.