Weird photoshop problem.

Slum

Normally, when using the brush tool, you hold alt to sample a color. For some reason, when I do that, it samples to the background color slot, rather than foreground. As you can imagine, it's quite a hassle to have to hit X to switch the fore/background colors every time I sample something. It just started doing this rather recently, so I can imagine I must have accidently hit a button or option somewhere. Does anyone know what's up?

rooster

I dont know whats up, but as a temporary solution- when I hold alt it samples to the back colour- if you do that does it sample to the front colour?

Slum

I'm assuming you're referring to the eyedropper tool itself, not the brush-mode eyedropper shortcut.

Actually yeah, for some reason the eyedropper tool samples to the background color by default, and holding alt samples to the foreground.

rooster

d'oh sorry I misread

edit: think I found it, in your colour panel (f6) click the foremost colour box, thats where you tell it the default thing to sample to-

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Slum

aha! sure enough! I'm glad it was such a simple solution. Thanks rooster!

Wells

sort of on topic, but is there a quick way to select the background color? like what slum was doing, but have it do that on purpose, in addition to the alt grabbing the forecolor?

When I need a sharp edge I flick my stylus over and use the erasor so I don't have to press any buttons... but I still need to manually select the color and hit x to make it the background one.

rooster

Sectaurs, I have my two pen buttons set to right click to select brushes, and x to flip colours. I dont really miss the left click since you can just do it with the nib

Wells

Hm, thats a pretty good idea. Right now I have them set to [ and ] to resize. I think I'll give your set up a whirl.