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December 17, 2024
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Unable to change text color

  • December 17, 2024
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Unable to change text color or color of pencil drawing

 

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Greg_S.
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 19, 2024

@Donohue Charles said:  for the last month i am not able to change to red to enter text or underline. It always turns out grey.

 

That sounds to me like your image mode is set to Grayscale, not RGB Color:

Greg_S.
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 18, 2024

Are you asking for a how-to?  Or are the tools not working?

 

For the text, do the following:

  1. Double-click on the text and it should all become highlighted
  2. Click on the Color picker menu in the Text Tool's options.
  3. Pick a color swatch
  4. Click the blue checkmark.

 

The pencil drawing tool uses the foreground color which you can change by clicking on the color picker at the bottom of the tool panel and choosing your desired color:

 

 

If these tools are not working as expected, we need more information from you.  But the first step would be to reset the preferences. Go to the Edit>Preferences>General tab and click the Reset Preferences on next launch button.

Participating Frequently
December 19, 2024

Thanks much i did rest. the preferences and it worked once but when i tried to use red to underline it turned out grey and that is happening all the time.  I am using my ipad to send messahes here because i wasnt ablecto get to community help on my mac a 2023 mac mini using elements 2022. Thanks to all for the help i will try again tomorrow. 

Peru Bob
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 18, 2024

How are you trying to change it?

Can you post screenshots or a video?