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ADOBE PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 2.0
User Guide
3 Select a color:
• To select a new foreground color from an image,
click the desired color in your image. To select a
color that appears elsewhere on your computer
screen, click inside your image and drag away
from it.
• To select a new background color from an
image, Alt-click (Windows) or Option-click
(Mac OS) the color you want. To select a color
that appears elsewhere on your computer
screen, click inside your image and drag away
from it.
As you click and drag the eyedropper tool, the
foreground color selection box changes dynami-
cally. Alt-click and drag (Windows) or Option-
click and drag (Mac OS) to activate the
background color selection box. Release the
mouse button to pick the new color.
To use the eyedropper tool temporarily while
using most painting tools, hold down Alt
(Windows) or Option (Mac OS).
Using the Swatches palette
You can select a foreground or background color
from the Swatches palette, or you can add or delete
colors to create a custom swatch library. You can
also save a library of swatches and reload them for
use in another image. Although you can add many
colors to the Swatches palette, you should manage
its size and organization to improve performance.
To display the Swatches palette:
Choose Window > Color Swatches, or click the
Swatches palette tab in the palette well.
To change the thumbnail display in the Swatches
palette:
In the Swatches palette, choose either Small
Thumbnail or Small List from the More menu.
To select a foreground or background color:
Do one of the following:
• To choose a foreground color, click a color in
the Swatches palette.
• To choose a background color, Ctrl-click
(Windows) or Command-click (Mac OS) a
color in the Swatches palette.
To choose a swatch library:
In the upper left corner of the Swatches palette,
choose a swatch library name from the Swatches
pop-up menu.
Managing swatches
The Swatches palette can hold many different
color swatches and different libraries of color
swatches. Creating libraries can help you group
related or special swatches and manage palette
size. The Adobe Photoshop Elements application
folder includes a Color Swatches folder inside the
Presets folder to contain the various swatch
libraries. When you create custom libraries, saving
them to the Color Swatches folder causes them to
automatically appear in the palette libraries pop-
up menu.
You can also load or save swatches using the Preset
Manager. (See “Using the Preset Manager” on
page 29.)
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