Learning how to change foreground color in Adobe will get you started to learn Photoshop. Foreground color is used to paint, fill, stroke selections, and make some special effect filters. You can change a new foreground color by using the Eyedropper tool, the Color panel, the Swatches panel, or the Color Picker. However, this article will show you how to change foreground color in Adobe Photoshop CS3 by using the Color Picker.
1Open your Adobe Photoshop program.Ad
2Locate “Set Foreground Color” tool. It’s located at the bottom of the toolbox on your left side and it looks like two squares stacking on top of one another.
3Click the top square. This square is on the first top of the other square. A Color Picker box for foreground color opens.
4Select a color hue on the sliding scale. It is located at the center of the Color Picker box. You can either drag up and down or click on one hue for your foreground color. As you drag the sliding scale up and down, the color in the color field to your left changes along with its value and saturation variants.
5Choose a color in the color field to your left. The color field is located at the left side of the Color Picker box; it looks like the biggest square displaying different shades of colors. By clicking on any color, the display on the small square to the right side of the hue sliding scale will change. This square is separated into two horizontal squares indicating your chosen current and new colors.
6Click “OK” button. It is on the top right hand side of the Color Picker box. When you are satisfied with the foreground color of your choice, click the button “OK.”
7The new foreground color displays. The “Set Foreground Color” square at the bottom of the toolbox displays your new foreground color.
8That’s it! You are all done.Ad
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- In “Step 5,” you can enter numbers into the small boxes on to the right side of the Color Picker box. These boxes are for the color modes of HSB, RGB, Lab, CMYK, and a hexadecimal value.
- Hue is the term for the pure spectrum colors referred by color names. They are red, orange, yellow, blue, and green violet.
- The default foreground color of Adobe Photoshop is black and the default background color is white.
- In this example, my previous foreground color was dark gold and I have changed it into red for this article.
Things You’ll Need
- A computer
- Adobe Photoshop CS3
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