Question: What does this do?

[Popkid5FB2]

I know the top left color is the color for my brush but what does the bottom right color do exactly? Just wondering, thanks in advance.

[jane-e · Accepted solution]

The bottom color is the Background swatch. Some places you'll see it include:

• in a foreground to background gradient
• when you Fill with the background color
• with some Filters
• when you Erase on a Background layer

Jane

[marliton]

Hi. Please check this link, especially the "About fills and strokes" section: https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/painting-fills-strokes.html

[jane-e]

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@marliton wrote:

Hi. Please check this link, especially the "About fills and strokes" section: https://helpx.adobe.com/illustrator/using/painting-fills-strokes.html

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Hi Marlon, 

It happens to all of us, but your link is to Illustrator and this is the Photoshop forum.

Cheers,

Jane

[marliton]

Ups! Tks for making me realize the error. Can I erase my wrong reply?