Epson Photo Plus - PhotoPlus Color Photo Scanner User's Guide download pdf (Page 137)

Painting and Drawing 125

Defining colors

Now, a few things to remember about how these colors are used:

When you draw a selection, shape, or use the paintbrush tools, you could

apply the foreground color.

However, the black text in the design could be created after swapping

foreground and background colors over using the tab's button. Loading

the foreground and background color with two frequently used colors is a

great way to boost productivity when painting and drawing.

Why background color? When you cut, delete, or erase an area on the

Background layer, the area exposes the currently set background color—

as if that color were there "behind" the portion of the image being

removed. (By the way, layers other than the Background behave

differently: on these, a removed area exposes transparency.)

To define foreground and background color:

1. Select the Color Pickup Tool on the Tools toolbar.

2. Left-click with the tool anywhere on an image to "pick up" the color at that

point as the new foreground color. Right-click to define a new background

color.

3. (Optional) On the Context toolbar, set the Sample Size (pickup region) as a

single "Point Sample", "3 x 3 Average" or "5 x 5 Average" area. The last two

options lets you sample an "averaged" color over a square pixel region, ideal

for sampling halftone images, i.e. when point sampling is not suitable.

To switch temporarily to the Color Pickup Tool from a paint, line, shape,

fill, or text tool, hold down the Alt key, then click to define the

foreground color.

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