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<p class="Paragraph">You can edit images inserted in a bitmap format (e.g., GIF, JPEG and metafile images (e.g., WMF) in <help:productname xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">%PRODUCTNAME</help:productname> Draw and <help:productname xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">%PRODUCTNAME</help:productname> Impress using <span class="T1">Eyedropper</span>. Open the Eyedropper by choosing <span class="T1">Tools - Eyedropper</span>. You then see the <span class="T1">Eyedropper</span> window.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">The Eyedropper can replace selected colors and, to a point, similar colors, with other colors. You can replace up to four colors at one time. If you do not like the replacement you can reverse it with one click on <text:s text:c="" xmlns:text="http://openoffice.org/2000/text"/><span class="T1">Undo</span> on the function bar. Use the Eyedropper to match the colors of different bitmaps or to redo a bitmap with the colors of your company logo.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">The <span class="T1">Transparency</span> attribute also serves as a color. <text:s text:c="" xmlns:text="http://openoffice.org/2000/text"/>You can replace the transparency in an image with a color, for example, with white. This is helpful if, for example, your printer driver is having problems with printing transparent graphics.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">If you want to produce an image on HTML pages to publish in the internet, like the illustration of a product, for example, it usually looks better when you do not see a rectangular picture, but rather only the illustration of the product which is then seen against the uniform background of the web page. If there is a white background in the picture behind the product, use the Eyedropper to replace the color white with "Transparent" (i.e. no color) and save and/or export the image in a format that supports the transparency attribute (such as GIF). When using this method, be sure that the illustration of the product itself does not contain any white parts, since these would also become transparent just like the background.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">To replace colors with the Eyedropper</p>
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<p class="P2">Insert an image in a Bitmap format (e.g., BMP, GIF, JPG, TIG) or in a metafile format (e.g, WMF). To do this, choose <span class="T1">Insert - Graphics</span> in <help:productname xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">%PRODUCTNAME</help:productname> Draw and <help:productname xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help">%PRODUCTNAME</help:productname> Impress.</p>
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<p class="P2">Open the <span class="T1">Eyedropper</span> window by choosing <span class="T1">Tools - Eyedropper</span>.</p>
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<p class="P2">In the Eyedropper window, click the Eyedropper icon in the upper left-hand corner. The mouse pointer will turn into a special pointer with which you then indicate the color to be replaced in the current document. The color box next to the eyedropper icon in the Eyedropper window displays the color the mouse pointer is resting on.</p>
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<p class="P2">Click the left mouse button when you find the color you want to have replaced. This color will automatically be registered in the first of the four rows in the Eyedropper window.</p>
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<p class="P2">Now, in the list box to the right in the same row, select the new color which should replace the selected color in the whole bitmap image.</p>
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<p class="P2">If in the same editing step you want to replace another color, click the check box in front of the next row. Now select the eyedropper icon in the upper left-hand corner again and choose a new color. Up to four colors can be replaced in one editing step.</p>
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<p class="P2">Select the bitmap image or the metafile image you want to change the colors in by clicking it.</p>
<p class="Paragraph">If too many similar colors were replaced, undo the step through <help:switch select="System" xmlns:help="http://openoffice.org/2000/help"><help:case select="MAC">Command</help:case><help:default>Ctrl</help:default></help:switch>+Z and decrease the color tolerance in the spin button. Then click <span class="T1">Replace</span>.</p>
