USING THE COLOR PICKER

Color controls are located at the bottom of the toolbox:

Whenever you use the airbrush, paintbrush, pencil, line, type or paint bucket tool, you apply the Foreground color.

You can also apply the Foreground color to a selected area by choosing Fill from the Edit menu, or by using the keyboard shortcut, Option Delete (Alt Delete for Windows).

When you use the eraser tool, you actually do not erase at all — you apply the Background color. You can apply the Background color to a selected area by pressing the Delete key.

To change or select a Foreground color, you simply click once on the Foreground color icon in the toolbox. The following dialog box will appear:

Use the Color Slider to home in on a particular color range. Just slide the little triangles up and down. The range of variations for the color will appear in the Color Field.

Click once with the mouse button inside the Color Field. Notice that the Current Color box changes. If you click OK, the Current Color will become your Foreground color. The Previous Color is the color of your Foreground color before you clicked on the Foreground icon in the toolbox (which brought up this dialog box).

Once you have selected a Foreground color, click OK. Look at the toolbox. The color you have selected now appears as the Foreground color icon.

To change or select a Background color, click once on the Background color icon in the toolbox, and follow the same steps as you did when choosing a Foreground color.