Take the 2-minute tour ×  I have a question regarding
illustrator.  Let's say I have a circle with blue fill and red
stroke. And I place an image in the illustrator file. Now I want
to change the red stroke of my circle to let's say a purple
color by sampling the color from the image.  How can I achieve
that with a eye dropper tool? Every time when I try to sample a
color from the image, the whole circle will change to purple
instead of just the stroke?  I have tried multiple key
combination, shift, alt, ctrl but they all don't work.  Cheers,
Venn.  share|improve this question add comment  3 Answers  I
don't think you can do that. I have wondered about that as well,
and I think the tool automatically puts it as a fill colour. For
just a few operations, I would unselect the object, pick the
colour, then copy the hexadecimal code and paste it for the
other object.  I think your most efficient technique is:  Select
all objects and reverse their stroke and fill colours, then use
the eyedrop thingie to change thei