The Color Picker is composed of two features, the Palette, and the primary and secondary colors.
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. |
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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. |
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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. |
There are three ways to change the color for the mouse buttons:
Use the Eyedropper tool to change the colors.
To change colors using the palette, do one of the following:
Click either mouse button on a color in the color palette.
Hold either mouse button and drag the mouse pointer across the palette. The color representing the mouse button changes as you drag the mouse pointer. Release the mouse to set the color
To change colors using the color boxes:
Click the primary or secondary color box.
Click the color you wish to change in the Palette editor. Highcolor and Truecolor image do not use the Palette editor.
Select a color in the Color Editor.
Click OK.