How to sample actual color of an area in illustrator?

Question

When I place a few objects one over another, each with different colors and transparencies, so that they all overlap somewhere, how would I measure the color on this overlapping area? Similar to the way the eyedropper in photoshop would just give me the color of the pixel he is hovering.Is this possible without ridiculous detours?All I could imagine is making a screenshot pasting it and measuring from there - but this kind of the definition of a ridiculous detour...

Answer 1

I agree that it is a crazy workaround and I wish Illustrator were more intuitive in this sense. I think it has to do with picking up pixels vs. vectors and they haven't made the eyedropper to read "through" objects.

Two ways you can do this without a screen shot is either making a copy of your graphics, Object > Rasterize them, then eyedropping the area you would like. Make sure you drag your color into your swatches to save it.

Or, you can also do the same with Object ≥ Flatten Transparency, then eyedropping it. It's a pain to be sure, but it will at least keep you inside of your program. Hope this helps!