Flash Tools: Eyedropper Tool

Video Transcript

"On the basics of Flash. Oay, our next tool down, is the Eyedropper tool. And this isn't going to take long to explain. You simple put it over whatever color you want, you click it and if you look down here, the color tile will update accordingly. So, if I want this, and actually something that it also does that is very, very useful, is once you select it, it automatically knows you've just selected a fill color. So you probably want to then use that to dump the paint out onto another fill. So it automatically changes it to the paint bucket tool. So it can now fill another space. So let's show you that again. We're going to undo, undo, click the Eyedropper. Select this pink color and watch over here in my tool vault when I do that. Okay. Two things happened. Number one, it changed to a, to the pink color in my fill color. And it changed my active tool from an Eyedropper to the Paint Bucket. Because it intuitively knows that if I've picked up a color, I'm probably going to use it, which I am. I'm going to fill right here. So, that's the Eyedropper tool."