Illustrator Picking Colors From Photo

[Zunebuggy]

I have a photo and I want to just paste it into Illustrator just long enough to use the eyedropper tool and grab a couple of colors from it and then I will not need the photo anymore. I am new to Illustrator. Brand new. Like I just started tonight. Unlike Photoshop I cannot simply Paste as New image, grab some colors, add them to the palette and close the image.

How can I accomplish this in Illustrator?

Thank you

 

[hawkeye]

Place your image in AI. Click an area to sample a color. Now drag the color from the tool palette into the swatch palette.

 

[Oskars Lekuns]

Also, you can just drop the picture in illustratos window