Stroke eyedropper keyboard shortcut - (i.e. sample colours quickly while painting!)

[jurassicparkin]

Hi! I'm recently rediscovering Moho after a long gap and wondered if someone could please help me streamline my painting workflow.

I'm basically wanting the ability to hold down a keyboard key and simulate clicking and dragging on the stroke eyedropper tool, so that I can sample colours quickly while painting.

For example, while painting in Photoshop, I can Alt + Click a colour to sample it, then continue painting. It would be great to have a similarly quick feature in Moho. Maybe the key could be a keyboard letter (e.g. Y) or, even better, be customisable in the Keyboard Shortcuts.

Example use case: I currently use a stroke to paint three basic colours; light, mid, shade. I then set the alpha to 20%. I then sample back and forth between my colours (and my alpha is maintained, which is awesome)! I quickly switch between painting and sampling until I have a smoothly blended look, which works well. But it would streamline the process to be able to Key Press + Click (or Key Press + hover mouse over colour + Key Release) to sample these colours.
Quick example:


I hope this makes sense!
Thanks in advance if anyone can help with a solution / workaround. I'd be extremely grateful!
Cheers!
Tom

[hayasidist]

you've kinda got that now.

assuming you're using blob brush (shortcut J) and painting happily ...
but you want a new colour, so you activate the eyedropper tool (shortcut L) ...
(at this point, escape will deselect the shape you've drawn if you don't want it to change colour)
... and pick a new colour ..
then shift-Z will take you back to blob brush

[yep - not as ergonomic as it might be but: J - paint - L - esc - mouse drag, click - shift-Z - mouse move, paint ...]

[jurassicparkin]

Thanks for your quick reply!
I hadn't been using the blob brush but that's good to know, thank you. I didn't know those shortcuts but I'll note them for future.
I like that workflow and was hoping for a similar feature with strokes really.
I'd been painting with strokes so that I could utilise the different brushes, using the method suggested in Víctor's dinosaur demo (brush setup is here, painting starts here).
Do you know if that would be possible?
Thanks again, I appreciate the help!

[hayasidist]

so substitute "freehand" (F) for blob brush? BUT eyedropper doesn't pick up alpha

and / or substitute select shape (and its actions) for eyedropper --> freehand (F) - select shape (S) - use the styles window - Shift-Z takes you back to freehand

IOW: F - draw - S - click to select - use the styles window - Shift-Z - draw

or (even simpler if you want a stroke over the one you've got)

Freehand - draw - go to style window - use the stroke eyedropper / brush settings from there and you're still in Freehand

Is that any use to you??