: How do you extract a color from a gradient in Illustrator? I want to grab one of the colors from a gradient, and turn it into a solid color swatch. Update Just to be precise, I want to

@Cofer715

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.

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@Jessie844

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:


DoubleClick the Eyedropper tool. Make sure its Appearance checkbox is on.
Rectangle Tool: Draw a rectangle. Leave it selected. Assume this is the object to which you want to apply a color sampled from the unselected grad-filled object.
Eyedropper Tool: ShiftClick the grad-filled object anywhere within its gradient.


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.

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@Harper654

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:

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@Steve758

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.

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@Rivera951

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.

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