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Redsand1080
09-21-2006, 10:02 PM
So some how while using my eyedropper tool I changed some setting so that now everytime I use the eyedropper tool it changes my background color instead of my foreground! I can't seem to figure out what I did. Any ideas??

Thanks! :thumbsup:
vaXn8d
09-21-2006, 11:21 PM
Hrm. If you hold down Alt it'll change your background color, but I'm not sure at all how you got it to stay that way. Does rebooting Photoshop and/or your computer help? What about holding Alt while color sampling, does that do anything different? Good luck man
tatiana
09-21-2006, 11:30 PM
Open your color palette and select the foreground square (you'll see the highlight around the box change). That's what I do when I accidently select ALT instead of CTRL while I'm picking colors from the image. :)
vaXn8d
09-22-2006, 12:05 AM
Open your color palette and select the foreground square (you'll see the highlight around the box change). That's what I do when I accidently select ALT instead of CTRL while I'm picking colors from the image. :)

Wait... what? Are you thinking of Illustrator, or am I totally misunderstanding you?
tatiana
09-22-2006, 01:55 AM
Hey vaXn8d,

This is the Photoshop forum, so I was talking about Photoshop not Illustrator. I'm working with the CS2 version on a PC at work.

I have PS 7 at home (PC as well) and in that version, selecting the X key swaps the foreground and background colors but seems to always have the foreground selected unless I specifically select the background swatch block in the color palette window.

I don't work with alot of keyboard shortcuts...although I've been working with Photoshop since 1990-91 (no layers in PS). So I just mentioned what I occasionally run into when I'm working with the program. There may certainly be another solution or two without having to restart Photoshop or reboot the computer. :)

t
frog
09-22-2006, 08:02 AM
Tatiana is right, this question comes up all the time. It's just a case of selecting the foreground colour swatch in the colour palette. If you accidently click on the background square it stays selected, much to the confusion of many.
Redsand1080
09-22-2006, 01:41 PM
Awesome! That fixed it. I knew it had to be something along those lines...just could not for the life of me figure out what I had clicked or reversed.

Thanks a lot! That just saved me hours of headaches and cursing. :)

You guys rule!:thumbsup:
vaXn8d
09-22-2006, 03:14 PM
Trip. Last night I checked on CS2 at work and it didn't have a highlight around either the foreground or background color, even when I would select one or the other... hence my confusion. That's a good tip, sorry for doubting you tatiana :blush:
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