The Tool Bar - From PHOTOS to ART with Photoshop - page 89

The Color Picker — Figure 43 — is one of the most used features of Photoshop. It can be
accessed by the Eyedropper Tool (a Tool Bar item which we skipped) or the Foreground/
Background Color Tool .
The default setting for the Foreground/Background Color Tool is a black Foreground and
a white Background. These two settings can be toggled back and forth by clicking on the
curved line with the two arrow heads just above the Foreground/Background Icon. Thus
the Foreground will become White and the Background will become black. When we get
to Layer Masks , the value of the toggle switch will become apparent.
The Hotkey to restore the default settings is the letter “ D ”. This is a Hotkey that you will
want to start using immediately.
If you want to change a color in your image, just click on the Foreground/Background Icon
and the Color Picker Window will appear. The large color panel on the left of the window