I want to grab one of the colors from a gradient, and turn it into a solid color swatch.
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Just to be precise, I want to get the color of one of the 'nodes' in the gradient. So if a a gradient goes from red to blue, I might want to grab the exact color blue from the blue node – i'm not wanting to grab any of the inbetween colors.
If I understand you correctly; you can click on the little arrow in the gradient tab, that represent the colour you want to find:
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Or, you could select the gradient object, and click the "create new colour group" at the bottom of the swatch window. This will give you a colour group with all the "main" colours in your gradient:
Here's a copy of an old post in Adobe forum, I think it works:
Assuming you mean you want to pick up colors between color stops of a Grad, so as to apply them to another object:
If you have the Color palette open, you'll see that the sampled color also becomes the current fill color. So from the Color palette's flyout menu, you can now select Create New Swatch.
If you have a 'live' gradient applied to an object within Illustrator, you can generate a set of flat swatches by selecting the object and clicking the 'edit gradient' (in the gradients palette). Add some nodes to the gradient wherever you want a new colour. Then, go to your swatches palette and create a new colour group, using the 'from selected artwork' option when it pops up. You'll get a new swatch set with all the nodes you created.
Is the gradient from an image? Then use the color picker. Is the gradient done in Illustrator you can simply look it up in the gradient tab.
Well maybe ther is an option for colopicker-tool. i found the easiest way just duplicate your gradient object and just rasterize it. color picking is now just easy like on every image file.
My way of solving it is (on my Mac) is to take a screenshot (cmd+ctrl+shift+4), use Photoshop by creating a new document and paste the screenshot (cmd+v). Then I use the color picker in Photoshop to get the color.
