September 2006
Beginner
574 pages
24h 23m
English
Content preview from Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual
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200 Photoshop Elements 5: The Missing Manual
Choosing the Color
You Want
The Color Swatches palette is very handy when you want to keep certain color
choices at your fingertips. For instance, you can put your logo colors into it, and
then you always have those colors available for any graphics or ads you create in
Elements.
Elements starts you off with several different libraries (groups) of Color Swatches.
Click the More button on the Swatches palette to see them all. A swatch you create
appears at the bottom of the current library, and you can save it there, or you can
create your own swatch libraries if you’d rather do that.
Using the Color Swatches to select your Foreground or Background color is as easy
as using the Eyedropper tool. Figure 7-18 shows you how.
To use the Color Swatches palette:
• To pick a foreground color: Click the color you want. It appears as the Fore-
ground color choice.
• To pick a background color: Ctrl+click a color, and Elements makes it the
Background color.
You can also change the way the Color Swatches palette displays swatch informa-
tion, as shown in Figure 7-19.
Figure 7-18:
When you move your cursor over the Color Swatches palette, it changes to an
eyedropper. Click to select a color. If you’re using a preloaded palette you’ll see
color name labels as you move over each square. If you use the swatches a lot,
choose “Place in Palette Bin when closed” from the More ...
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