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Lukas Kawalec
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November 9, 2021
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When using Color Range, sampling a color changes you currently selected foreground color to that one

  • November 9, 2021
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I'm using Photoshop 2020. If someone can confirm that this is "fixed" in 2021 (or later?) then please do, but the problem is as follows:

 

When using Color Range, and sampling a color to be selected, whatever color you had as your foreground color before using Color Range is changed to the one you select in Color range. It's pretty frustrating as if I just want to paint, I now lost that color I wanted to paint in this area with. Perhaps there's some config option I can change?

 

Is there a point to this feature? Because I think it's easier to simply sample the color afterwards than try to get a color you had before, which is now gone.

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Lukas KawalecAuthor
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November 11, 2021

Thank you, that's helpful. Still, I think it's easier to just color pick afterwards than having it change your color automatically - but whatever, highly unlikely it's going to change.

Jeff Arola
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Jeff ArolaCommunity Expert
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November 10, 2021

As far as i know, that is the intended behaviour since color range first appeared in photoshop 3 (circa 1994).

 

Before you use color range you could hit the X key to put your present foreground color on the background color chip so you don't lose it when using color range.

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