Picker always samples for background colour...?

[LozoKrak]

Hi,

Probably a simple fix

but I'm on someone else's computer

so some of the PS settings are different

than mine.

I try to use the colour picker to get colour

in the foreground box, but it always automatically

goes to the background box.

Can someone tell me how to fix this please?
CS4

thanks

[Amr ElAwady]

TYSM this was a huge pain in the back!

[Noel Carboni]

MTSTUNER is right, though it may not be exactly clear what you have to do:

• In Photoshop, choose Window - Color.
• Note the two little squares to the upper-left.
• Click on the foreground (upper-left) square, so that the outline is darkened.
• From here on, unmodified color picking tools will update the foreground color.

-Noel

[rkdp2008]

This solved my issue also (7 years later)!

Thx

[cchristen7]

Thank you!  This just helped me too.  9 years later and still helpful!

[ColbyFulton]

This is still happening in 2023. I've been using Photoshop since the 90s and it's never done this to me. WTF

[LozoKrak]

Thanks everyone!

Works!

I will probably be posting other questions in regards to this

computer's PS settings.

Thanks a lot

[rinnathecat]

Solved my issue too (8 years later). Cheers!

[Rone913]

THANK YOU!!!

[JooYoungChoi]

I had the same problem, I watched this tutorial I found through a good search and it made it very clear how to do fix it 🙂

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KA2UghoWVr0

I went to the window thing on the top and opened up the color window (not the one in your tools thing) in the color window it shows the foreground and background color, there is a slight grayish border highlighting the one that you want the color picker to deposit the color into. The color boxes were highlighting the background color, once I clicked the foreground color box, and then tried the eye dropped tool it was working right again 🙂