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  • Corel X3: colour picking tool doesn’t select colours – help?

    Posted by Mike Grant on 29 January 2015 at 16:32

    Corel X3
    I have just had to do a complete computer re-install after a meltdown and now the colour picking tool does not select any colours, I have searched high and low for some sort of command to switch it on but to no avail.
    Any Corel guru out there that knows the answer?
    🙁

    Mike Grant replied 10 years, 8 months ago 4 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Martin Cole

    Member
    30 January 2015 at 14:19

    You’ll have to wait for Mr Alan D,
    meanwhile you could download colourpix, great thing to have on your desktop.

    http://www.colorschemer.com/colorpix_info.php

    I hope you keeping well btw.

    Martin

  • Glenn Sharp

    Member
    30 January 2015 at 20:07

    Mike,

    When you click and hold on the eye dropper tool it gives you a choice of two……it hasn’t defaulted to the Attributes Eyedropper has it?

    If that’s not the case it isn’t set to select from desktop rather than the drawing page?

    That’s about all I can think of as far as the settings go

  • Alan Drury

    Member
    31 January 2015 at 18:19

    Glenn’s reply would have been my first thought. I’m back in the shed on Monday and I’ll run X3 and refresh my memory on it as I haven’t used it for yonks in the mean time try opening Draw with F8 pressed and reset the default workspace (save your customised one first if you have one) When Draw has opened try the eyedropper again if it works import your customised workspace and try again.
    Workspace reset can sort loads of issues.

  • Mike Grant

    Member
    5 February 2015 at 20:14

    Thanks guys, it had reverted to the object attributes, the problem was I was looking at all the menus and not on the bottom bar, never noticed those come up on previous program loadings. All sorted and back to normal now.
    :thumbup2: :praise1: :appl:

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