It's better than some of Photoshop's selection tools GIMP's Foreground Select tool doesn't get enough love, but it's one of the software's best secret weapons, unlike Photoshop's Quick Select and ...

GIMP 2.6 provides a "Color Picker Tool" that samples a small section of your image file. This color sample selected as a foreground or background color can then be copied to another part of the image.