Tool bar colors don't show correct colors

[annie_3375]

Any idea why the colors on the left, at the bottom of the tool bar, don't reflect the colors of the shape?

[LAMY2017 · Accepted solution]

Probably because Fill and Stroke are for filling and stroking shapes with one color, and the boxes in the bottom left corner are intended for applying Background and Foreground fill, brush, paint bucket; and gradients of two colors.

[jane-e]

@annie_3375 

Shapes use the swatches in the options bar, Properties panel, and Contextual toolbar. The three circled in yellowish–orange are correct. Make changes any of the three..

Jane

[annie_3375]

I don't understand why they removed the ability to swap the fill and outline colors. Also why on earth would they have a random color palette that doesn't represent anything and has no functional use. This update makes no sense to me. 

[jane-e · Accepted solution]

@annie_3375 

For your second question, swapping the fill and stroke colors has always been in Illustrator, but never in Photoshop. In Illustrator, "X" is a shortcut to swap the fill and stroke. in Photoshop, "X" is a shortcut to bring the foreground or background swatch to the front.

For your third question, the color panel they used for years made less sense than what they have now, in my opinion. The Adobe team changed the way that color swatches are displayed several versions ago, so this is not new. The colors are grouped together in a logical way, unless you are looking at the recent list at the very top of the panel, which displays colors that you have used recently. I expect that most Creatives want to create their own set of colors and not use any provided by Adobe.

The list of Recents can be disabled in the swatches panel menu.

I answered your first question earlier in this thread. Did that help you or do you need more assistance with how that works? Please ask again if it was not clear.

Jane

[pixxxelschubser]

@jane-e is absolutely right. Technically speaking, all the colour patches visible in your screenshot show the same colour value. The ‘perceived deviations’ are therefore more likely to be an optical illusion.