Where is the color eyedropper in illustrator draw?

Where is the color eyedropper in illustrator draw? This is a feature I desperately need.

I find this a problem too! The color history is not nearly as convenient while working on a drawing and once you work on a few projects and then come back to an older drawing it is real guess work to match colors.

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Filling in the Colors of an Illustration Efficiently

I have the following illustration:
What I need to do is fill in certain aspects of this illustration with different colors. For instance, I might need to change the color of the hair, or the shirt or the jacket. Currently the way I've been doing this is by using live paint. The only problem with this is that when using Live Paint, it nearly doubles the size of the file and also adds about twice the amount of paths. For what I'm trying to do, it's extremely important to me that I keep the file size and the amount of paths at a bare minimum. I've tried using paths -> simplify after using Live Paint, and the problem with this is it skews the illustration a little, and also puts some "holes" in it (ie the dead spaces I was referring to in my other thread).
Ultimately, what I'd like to be able to do is just select the path for a certain area of the drawing and fill it. However, there isn't always a neat path for the part of the drawing I want to fill. What I'm wondering is, what is the best way to go about separate the one ginormous path that engulfs much of the illustration into some other smaller paths that I can fill. Or in general, can anyone think of a better way to go about doing this so I get the most efficient illustration possible?
For your reference, here is the svg version of the file: https://sendnow.acrobat.com/?i=0HBJVDJKKp*sXdjhyzeV3A
Thanks,
KiSS

However, there isn't always a neat path for the part of the drawing I want to fill.
Then you have to create one.
...what is the best way to go about separate the one ginormous path that engulfs much of the illustration into some other smaller paths that I can fill....
That's essentially what LivePaint does. It creates new paths in the shapes of areas that are merely visually enclosed by portions of existing paths. When it does this "flood fill" behaviour, it creates additional closed paths with fills.
If the area that you want to flood fill is too large, or has gaps that let the flood fill bleed out to areas you don't want it to, you can control that by drawing additional, temporary paths (for example, across the bottom) to "contain" or "limit" the areas of flood fill.
Or in general, can anyone think of a better way to go about doing this so I get the most efficient illustration possible?
Sure. Understand that you don't get something (elegant, efficient results) for nothing (sloppy drawing with over-automated instant-gratification features). Learn to draw with the Pen tool, placing and modifying anchor points deliberately; drawing optimal paths to begin with instead of drawing paths that merely look like they enclose the right areas by dragging things like the Brush or Pencil tool.
...when I try to join the line to that anchor point, it's giving me the "to join, you must select two open..."
If you're using LivePaint, you don't have to join the paths to contain the flood fill if you're relying on LivePaint to automatically detect and trace around the new visually-enclosed areas.
When you do want to join paths (as when drawing/constructing paths deliberately), you don't have to select endpoints to join paths. You can just select the paths with the black pointer and invoke the Join command. The joins will occur at the nearest ends. You can do the same thing to close a single open path.
If the ends where you want the joins to occur are not the nearest ends, you can, again, draw a temporary path to cause the desired ends to be the nearest, and then delete/modify unwanted anchors/segments thereafter.
Your stated goal here is to get optimal paths. You just don't get that by using the loosey-goosey, artsy-tartsy "painterly" features (Pen, Pencil, LivePaint, autotracing, etc., etc.) You get it by learning how to draw Bezier paths deliberately and accurately.
JET

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I thought updates were supposed to provide enhancements, not remove things. What else has been taken away?
I use this tool a lot and would like to get it back. If it has been replaced with something supposedly better, then what and where is it? Have I missed something?
Any advice on this would be appreciated.

Yes, there is lots of useful information here, and thanks for directing me to it. The claimed improvements to fixing chromatic aberrations in digital cameras, including ability to fix LoCA fringing, are impressive
However, the article seems to apply only to ACR 7 (which I presume is exclusive to CS6) and LR 4. My question was really about ACR 6.7.0.339 in CS5, which installed via Adobe Updates, during the past week. On my system, this update appears to have removed the manual fringe removal tools in the Lens Correction palette.
There is nothing about this in the release notes, so has something gone wrong here?
However I have discovered that my lens is now supported, and that applying the (semi) automatic adjustments via the Lens Profile tab does a reasonable job of fixing chromatic aberrations (as well as geometrical aberrations) and is a lot quicker to use. However the manual tool should still be there to fix problems with unsupported lenses as well as a means of applying finer adjustments, perhaps to selected parts of an image, or to accomodate variations in manufactured lens quality.

Stop it from using photo black ink for black text printing and where has the color ink gone?

My HP Photosmart Prem C310 series all in one is using the Black Photo ink cartridge for text printing instead of the XL Black that I put in it for text printing. How can I get it to use the right cartridge for printing? Also, even though I have NOT printed ANY photo's and very few pages of text the new set of color cartridges I put in it a few months ago are almost empty. Why? How could they be almost empty when I have NOT printed anything in color? This is getting ridiculous replacing ink cartridges every few months WHEN I HAVE NOT BEEN PRINTING ANYTHING!!!
The set of ink cartridges that came with it lasted for several months. Since then I've gone through two sets in less than a year. That's 3 sets of ink cartridges when I have only printed 3 photo's when I first set it up. And have only used les than a 1/4 of one package of printing paper. I've only put paper in it twice. Each time it was about a 1/4 inch or 3/8 of an inch thick stack of paper in the tray. I've even tried shutting the printer down when its not being used for a long period of time but the ink is still disapearing. Where is it going? Why is it going there? How do I stop it? This is rediculous. I may as well junk the thing even though it still works because I cant aford to keep feeding it ink when its just sitting there doing nothing most of the time.
Thank you
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I just got another email from HP about this problem wanting to know what I found for a solution to this problem. From all of the suggestions from the HP tec support all of them pretty much kept saying the same thing. That it is my fault that it's using so much ink because I have it on the wrong settings. One tec did slip and say that it doesn't matter what settings you have it on it will always use the Photo Black cartridge for printing plain black text and it doesn't matter if you have a X-Large Black cartridge in it for text printing because it was made to always use the Photo Black for text and even use some of the colors to blend with the black to make it stand out. Why anybody would need this when just printing shipping labels and things like that I don't know.
Any who, The only solution for this problem is,,,, junk the printer and get a different brand & model of printer. Research it before buying to find out how much ink it wants to waste and if it will still print black text if it only has a black cartridge in it. I was going to get rid of mine by giving it to a friend since they don't have a printer. But since I want to keep him as a friend I decided not to give it to him. Since it cant be traded in for a different one even though it still works, Its going to the target shooting range the next time I go out shooting. Maybe I'll take a few video's clips of it getting blasted to pieces with a Ruger 10-22 .22 cal. rifle with 25 shot clips, a Ruger Mini-14 Ranch Rifle shooting .223 cal with a 30 shot clip, a Chinese SKS 7.62 with a 30 shot clip. And maybe use my Ruger P89 9mm pistol and put a couple 15 round clips of 9mm in it. If there's anything left I'll finish it off with a few 3" magnum loads of #2 steel shot with my 20 gauge shotgun. Then I think I'll do the same thing to my Westinghouse 46" flat screen HDTV that just died.
Then maybe I'll come back and post the video's of my "solution to this printers problem". It may not fix the problem, but it will be an entertaining way of getting rid of the problem.

Where is the Duplication function in Illustrator?

Hi there,
I've been desperately trying to find the duplication function in Illustrator. I've searched the entire menu system with no luck
I understand the pre-programmed keyboard shortcut for this is CMD+D but I've acciedentally written over this. Could someone please tell me where I can locate this function??
Any help is much appreciated.

This forum is actually about the Cloud, not about using individual programs
If you start at the Forums Index http://forums.adobe.com/index.jspa
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Each Keynote theme has its own look and its own colors, right? And if you create a bar chart, all the colors of the different bars will nicely match the chosen theme.
So, shouldn't these few theme-compatible colors be listed somewhere in the color chooser? If I want to draw something using a few objects (or if I want to highlight some text using color), I want to choose from exactly those few theme-compatible colors.
Is that possible? I'm really confused as to why such a list of colors is not readily available as a palette in the color chooser?! Or is it, somewhere? I don't want to choose some ugly color that doesn't match the theme!
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I inherited a SharePoint 2010 site to manage. I am a novice here just keeping a seat warm.
When I am in SharePoint Designer and I open
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I use iWeb a lot, but I get really frustrated when I can only select colors from the set of crayons. Is there a way to use a color wheel in iWeb 08?

Hi Kora you're cool
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Illustrator Draw runs on iPads that are running iOS 7 and iOS 8.

For Mac:
http://support.apple.com/kb/SP663
Software:
Mac OS X version 10.6.8 or later (intel-based hardware)
400MB of available disk space
iTunes in the Cloud and iTunes Match availability may vary by country.
Hardware:
Mac computer with an Intel Core processor and 512MB of RAM
To play 720p HD video, an iTunes LP, or iTunes Extras, a 2.0GHz Intel Core 2 Duo or faster processor and 1GB of RAM is required.
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http://store.apple.com/us/product/MC573Z/A/mac-os-x-106-snow-leopard
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I am using forms 9i, and Windows XP Pro.

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