9-22-09-+Colors

__ Colors __ __ Foreground and Background Color Buttons __ There is a section on the tool bar dedicated to colors. The two squares are the foreground and background colors. The front is the foreground, which is the color your tools use. The back is the background color. The button with the little squares is the default color button. It changes the colors back to what is the default setting. If you click on a color square it brings up a color selecting box that lets you select a specific color.



The letters on the side represent color ranges. HSB or Hue, Saturation, and Brightness does not pick a specific color but changes the properties of it. RGB controls the amount of Red, Green< or blue that is added into a color. If you put 0 into all the boxes it makes black, however if you put 255 into them it makes the opposite which is white. CMYK is almost the same as RGB but it controls Cyan, Magenta, Yellow, and Black. It is by default the third pallet up from the bottom. With this box you can quickly and easily change your background and foreground colors. To manually change it you can slide the RGB sliders back and forth to adjust the amounts of color to add to it. To pick premade colors click the swatches tab on the box. To create your own swatch, you can either use the color box shown in the picture or you can use the eye drop tool to select a color, then you simply click an empty spot in the swatch tab. To select a color with the eye drop tool you select the tool and click on any color inside your image and it will set it to your foreground color. -Tyler W.
 * __ Color and Swatch Box __**