Intelligently switch to Stroke or fill colour depending on what is selected.
I have used illustrator for 15+ years and gained numerous grey hairs because of it. One thing that has constantly driven me insane is this:
You have in your illustration some elements that are fill only. Other elements that are strokes only.
You are busy with the eyedropper tool. Recolouring your artwork, trying out ideas.
If I select a stroke only item, that has no fill, please use a couple simple lines of code to switch the tool bar swatch thingy to focus on stroke. Similar to pressing X on the keyboard. And vice verse with a fill only item.
Why would I select a stoke only item and then want to add a fill to it?! Especially if it's a two point straight line!!!! Why not add a tiny line of code to recognise item selected has no fill, item has stroke, item has no closed path = switch swatch focus to stroke so user doesn't go insane.
Same with filled objects. If I wanted to add a stroke to it, I would do so manually with stroke menu. I wouldn't expect to add a stroke when using the eyedropper tool to change the fills colour.
It is so so annoying. Does no one at Adobe use illustrator all day long? It has contributed to my stress over the past 15 years.
Yes I can press X, shift X or /.... but it slows things down and I often to forget.
Also the recolour tool... make it for the year 2020. Give us curves to adjust artwork tones. When working in RGB, for artwork that will be later animated in afterEffects, we're less interested in individual swatch spot/process colours and more interested in being able to adjust colours with precision: levels, curves etc. Please I beg you.
Graham
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Rebecca Bailey
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Yes! I love this idea, I'm accidentally adding strokes or fills to objects that don't need them because I didn't check whether stroke or fill is fronted in the tool bar. And if the item already has both a stroke and fill, then you don't have switch anything.