Color Picker.

In the next of the Photoshop for beginners tutorials, we'll look at the Color Picker Tool.

There are zillions of colors to choose from. Although the human eye can just about distinguish millions of colors, printing can only use a relatively small number; but that's a problem for the future.

• In the base of the toolbox, you will see two squares overlapping slightly.
  The top color is for the foreground and the lower colour is for the background.
  Click on the black square, which brings up the Color Picker dialogue box.
  
  
  
  
  
  
• With the cursor, click on the large color square to choose a new color.
  The chosen color appears in the top of the smaller box next to the OK button.
  The sliders around the vertical color bar will choose a new range.

• Click OK now and this color becomes the foreground color.

• Click on the background square in the toolbox to bring up the Color Picker again and a new background color can be chosen.

• The foreground and background colours can be reversed by clicking on the small double arrow next to the squares.
  • Pressing X on the keyboard also reverses the colours.
• The default colours are black over white. To clear existing colours and revert to the default, press D on the keyboard.
• The Color Picker has many functions, such as:

1. Colors can be selected by inserting their numbers;
2. Colors particularly compatible with printing media can be selected;
3. The limited range of colors that display well on the web, known as web-safe colors, can also be chosen.

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