Using the Color Picker

The Color Picker is composed of two features, the Palette, and the primary and secondary colors.

Palette

The palette displays all the colors in an image.  If the image is Truecolor or Highcolor the palette displays all possible colors.

If the image is converted from one type of color display to another the palette will change accordingly.

The images to the right show the palettes for Truecolor, 256 Color and 16 Grayscale.

Primary and Secondary Colors

The two boxes displayed below the palette are associated with the left and right mouse buttons. The colors work with the Drawing Toolbar, and Blend Modes

You can use both colors with the Eyedropper, Pencil, Line, Rectangle, Ellipse, Airbrush and Fill tools.

The primary color works with the Add Text tool.

The secondary color acts as the background color when a selection is removed from an image.

You can click the arrow between the two colors to switch their places.

Changing the Primary and Secondary Colors

There are three ways to change the color for the mouse buttons:

To change colors using the palette, do one of the following:

To change colors using the color boxes:

  1. Click the primary or secondary color box.

  2. Click the color you wish to change in the Palette editor. Highcolor and Truecolor image do not use the Palette editor.

  3. Select a color in the Color Editor.

  4. Click OK.