I need help w/ Eyedropper Tool PLZ

310 views6 repliesLast post: 1/29/2004
You know how in Photoshop you use Eyedropper tool to select foreground by clicking at color and background by Alt+clicking on the color. Well, my problem is that I did something (not sure even if I did it) that now its all reversed, when I click on color it selects Background color and when I Alt+click it selects foreground color. How can I fix it?

In other words:
If you have an image that you are working on and you see a color on the image that you want to use elsewhere you can use Eyedropper tool to "suck" the color into eyedropper and it should go into your foreground color (unless you Alt+Click on color then It will go to background color). My problem is that If I want to pick foreground I need to Alt+Click (usualy its just a click) on color of my choice and if I want to get Background color then I just need to click (normaly its Alt+Click) to get a color of my choice. So basicaly, somehow my Eyedropping tool got reversed and Im asking If anyone knows how to fix it?
#1
Reset your preferences per the instruction in the FAQ.
#2
Oh yes that helps but now its opens a pop up box saying that Adobe Photoshop's primary Scratch and Window's primary paging file on the same volume. I was getting this kind of message some time ago but then fixed it and forgot how to do it.
#3
In Photoshop, go to Edit>Preferences>Plugins & Scratch Disks and set your first scratch disk to something other than "Startup." A separate hard drive is preferable, but a different partition will suffice if you have a partitioned drive. If you're working just off of a single hard drive with a single partition, choose "C:" instead.
#4
Vadym,

Make sure the Foreground color swatch is active in the toolbox not the background swatch.

Ronald
#5
Make sure the Foreground color swatch is active in the toolbox not the background swatch.

<nodding> In the color palette.
#6
<<nodding> In the color palette.

Yes, you are right of course, you can't activate the foreground/background swatch in the toolbox (I was thinking of Illustrator)
I wish there was much more consistency between Photoshop/Illustrator/Indesign. There are many of those little differences that I find very annoying...

Ronald
#7