Alt+click eyedropper tool not working

[Brave_resourcefulness5D2E]

I've seen a lot of artists use an efficient blending method by continuously alt+clicking a color and then blending it with another color. But when I tried alt+clicking and blending, the color I selected is shown in the background color instead of the foreground color. How do I fix this?

[Bojan Živković]

If I can understand your question then the answer is following: to set Foreground color do not hold Alt while clicking on color using Eyedropper tool.

[davescm · Accepted solution]

HI

If Alt clicking with a brush is setting the background colour instead of the foreground colour then go to the color panel and click where shown below

To blend colours on the canvas , use the mixer brush . To get that tool, click and hold on the brush tool in the toolbar and you will see the mixer brush which shares the same slot

Dave

[PlushieLove]

The mixer brush is completely different from what this person is asking, and the whole point of this is to not to be using the eyedropper tool.  https://youtu.be/KA2UghoWVr0 this youtube video explains it! Go to the color window and there is a thin grey box selected around the black and white squares on the background one. Just select the foreground by clicking the foreground one. 

[jane-e]

Hi PlushieLove,

The video you posted takes 2m12s to explain what has already been marked as the correct answer. Thanks for your post all the same.

~ Jane

[PlushieLove]

I didn't understand it from that comment, which is why I decided to comment to make it clearer for others. I will try and delete it if you think it is not helpful though.

[John35434049plww]

Thanks! This is exactly the answer I neeeded.  It was getting really frustrating to have to keep flipping the background to foregound after colorpicker would always make my alt click selections go to background color. I must have accidently clicked on the backgorund square in the colors palete.