11. Color

When learning Photoshop, few topics are more fundamentally important than color—and the abundance of features for choosing and applying it. For example, the Swatches panel enables you to save and apply colors swiftly and efficiently, while the Color Sampler tool helps you keep track of colors in key image areas while you make adjustments.

Essential tasks involve setting the foreground and background colors, sampling color with the Eyedropper tool, as well as using the Color Picker and Color panel to mix colors in modes such as RGB, CMYK, HSB, ...

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