# Make eye dropper tool work on imported pictures

**URL:** <https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/make-eye-dropper-tool-work-on-imported-pictures/10515>\
**Category:** Modeling Questions\
**Created:** [December 25, 2020, 4:51am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/make-eye-dropper-tool-work-on-imported-pictures/10515 "2020-12-25T04:51:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 25, 2020, 4:51am UTC](https://discourse.shapr3d.com/t/make-eye-dropper-tool-work-on-imported-pictures/10515/1 "2020-12-25T04:51:35Z")

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I’m happy there’s an eye dropper tool to select colours, but I’d like to be select colours in an imported photo.  
Especially natural colours like wood are hard to emulate and not being able to use the eye dropper on pictures, makes it unnecessary hard.

Is this on the roadmap?