From the course: Drawing and Painting in Photoshop
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Using the Color picker - Photoshop Tutorial
From the course: Drawing and Painting in Photoshop
Using the Color picker
- [Narrator] Being inside the color picker window, when we have found our new color, we confirm it by hitting the OK button. And now, the foreground color is changed to our new color, and any color application tool will use our new color. And if we want to change it, again we click on the foreground color swatch, change our color. Confirm with OK. And apply our new color. And this repeats as often as we need to choose a new color. This can actually become a little bit cumbersome always having to go all the way to the left side and clicking this color swatch here. What I would suggest is to set up a keyboard shortcut to do the same. And this is not a default setting, so I want to show you how you do it. Under edit, keyboard shortcuts. We make sure here in the shortcuts for menu, we choose tools. Now we can scroll almost all the way down until we find the foreground color picker. I click the entry, and I can now set a shortcut. And I want to have a very intuitive shortcut for the color…
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