Select Transparent Color with Eyedropper ...

Hi,
I've a semitransparent rectangle with some colored paths behind it. I now want to pick the exact color I see: My semitransparent color mixed with the background. I tried the eyedropper tool (with and without SHIFT), but it always picks the full opaque color of the rectangle and not the transparent one (even not the mixed with the background one).
How can I pick transparent colors? Do I have to make a screenshot, paste the clipboard to Photoshop and pick it there?
Many Thanks
Konrad

Ok...I just figured out how to do it haha nevermind!
To get the exact colour I used the eye dropper tool to go over the colours and looked at the COLOUR GUIDE window instead of just the colour window.
When you get the colour and want to paint with it, make sure to turn the opacity up because it will still have the percentage set. Done!

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