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Figure 7-18. To use the Eyedropper tool to sample colors outside of Elements, activate the tool,
and then click anywhere in your Elements document and keep your mouse button pressed. Then,
while still holding down your mouse button, move your cursor to the non-Elements object (a web
page, for instance), until it's over the area you want to sample. (Watch your foreground color
square as you drag—it changes to reflect the color your cursor is currently over.) When you let go
of your mouse button, the new color appears in Elements' foreground color square. (If you let go
before you get to the non-Elements object, this trick won't work.) Here, the Eyedropper (circled) is
sampling the purple color from a photo that's open in Windows Photo Viewer. If you don't have a
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