How do i change the foreground/background color using the swatches panel

[keitha70260201]

Please view the following video to address my questions.

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As you can see what is happening in the video when I select a color in the swatches panel, the foreground/background color changes to a different color than what I select in the swatches panel.

I'm using Photoshop CC 2018

Keith

[Guest · Accepted solution]

Hi

You have the layer mask selected

[Chuck Uebele]

You have your mask selected, which is only grayscale. Select the actual layer.

[Mike_Gondek]

To get out of  mask mode, you can hit Q twice. Takes you in and out of quick mask mode, and a shortcut I use to save mouse movements.

You can also option click on a swatch to choose background color.

[keitha70260201]

Thank you all for pointing this out to me. I'm new to photoshop and I didn't realize that's what I was doing.