To change the current pen or fill ink:  Make sure no objects are selected in the document, then press the pen ink or fill ink icon to select a current ink in the Inks palette. Using the Color Dropper You can use the Color Dropper tool to select and apply colors. The Color Dropper tool is located in the toolbar containing Effects tools in the toolbox. The Color Dropper can select colors from any object in a document and from anywhere on screen, even outside of the Canvas application window. Colors you select with the Color Dropper become the current fore- ground or background colors for painting and the current pen inks and fill inks for new vector objects. The Color Dropper helps you use colors consistently throughout a document. It can also help you identify colors from documents that you import into Canvas. By letting you match colors, the Color Drop- per can be useful for photo retouching. The Color Dropper has two modes: Object Ink and Pixel Color. The tool selects the actual color at the point you click, taking into account transparency effects. Or, it selects the ink (in vector and text objects) or the paint color (in images). See “Color Dropper modes” on page 18.308. Selecting an ink In vector objects and text, the Color Dropper can pick up texture, gra- dient, hatch, and symbol inks; in paint objects, the Color Dropper selects the original color applied to the pixel you click. 1 Double-click the Color Dropper icon. In the dialog box, select Object Ink and click OK. 2 Select the Color Dropper tool. To set the fill ink, click an ink to make it the current fill ink. You can click a pen ink or a fill ink; in either case, the ink you click becomes the current fill ink. To set the pen ink, Option-click (Mac) or right-click (Windows) an ink to make it the current pen ink. You can click a pen ink or a fill ink; in either case, the ink you click becomes the current pen ink. Color Dropper tool
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