How to Assign Colors in Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop allows you to do more than just adjust and manipulate digital photographs. You can apply colors to written words, hand-drawn sketches and even blank canvases. Photoshop includes a color selection window that enables you to choose among a vast library of colors for every artistic need. You can assign colors to most of the tools on your Photoshop toolbar, as well as some of the filters.
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Instructions
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Open your Photoshop toolbar if you cannot already see it. It should appear on the left side of your screen, as a vertical bar containing various icons. If it doesn't appear on you screen, click "Window" and then "Tools" on your menu bar.
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Click the "Foreground Color" box on the toolbar to assign a color to your drawing and painting tools, as well as your "Type" tool. Alternatively, click the "Background Color" box if you want to assign a color to your "Eraser" tool. If you want to assign a color to a blending tool, such as the "Gradient" tool, you will need to select both a foreground and a background color. Both boxes appear at the bottom of your toolbar, with the foreground box in front, and the background box in back.
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Click any color on the "Color Picker" window to assign a color to your chosen box (foreground or background). To move up and down the color spectrum, drag the slider along the color spectrum color to the right of the main "Color Picker" space. Click "OK" after choosing your color.
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Click the tool to which you want to apply the color. For instance, if you chose a red swatch on your "Color Picker," and want to use it to create a line of red text, click "Type" tool. Then click your mouse on the canvas to begin applying the effects of the tool, along with the color that you previously selected.
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Click the "Filter" menu at the top of your screen and select filters from the list. Some filters (like the "Blur" filters) do not use colors, but others (like some of the "Artistic" filters) will use your selected colors to apply effects and accents to your image.
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