Is there a way to use the brush tool and eyedropper tool at the same time?

[christinanoelc]

I'm relatively new to photoshop and I've been fiddling around with it trying to get the settings and layout close to what I had on my previous program, clip studio. In clip studio I was able to just use one of the buttons on my wacom pen to be able to pick a color off the canvas without having to use a separate tool, it would immediately go back to the brush without me having to do anything once I selected the color. It made painting easy because I could just quickly grab a color and continue as before. With photoshop I set one of my pen buttons to be the eyedropper tool but I realized quickly that I'd have to switch between the eyedropper tool and the brush tool. Is there any way to make it so I can eliminate that extra step of having to switch back to the brush tool?

[pixxxelschubser · Accepted solution]

Hi christinanoelc​,

press and holding [Alt] key while your brush tool is selected activate temporarely the eyedropper tool. click change the foregroud color.

Have fun

[christinanoelc]

Thank you very much, I was almost ready to drop photoshop because of that

[pixxxelschubser]

… and do not forget the [x] key. That changes foreground with background color. In this way you can "hold" two colors easily.