What are these colored blots? [iPad]

[blodsmak]

I am quite new to photoshop on the iPad, and as I am trying to color a drawing, these dropshaped blots of color show up. I have no idea how they got there, or how to get rid of them. I do not even know how to google  it.

Please, they are wicked annoying!, and have no function as far as I can tell!

Thanks in advance for all and any help!

[creative explorer · Accepted solution]

@blodsmak  those "dropshaped blots of color" that appear when you're trying to color your drawing in Photoshop on the iPad are almost certainly color samples or swatches that have been pinned to your canvas. You've likely accidentally activated a gesture or tool that created them. They typically appear when you're using the Eyedropper tool (which looks like a small dropper icon on the toolbar, often grouped with other tools), or if you've tapped and held on a color to sample it. These are incredibly useful once you understand their function! They are designed to let you quickly sample and switch between colors that you've picked from your artwork, or that you want to keep handy for easy access.

To use them: If you tap on one of the color drops, it should instantly set your active foreground color to that sampled color, allowing you to quickly switch between specific hues in your artwork.

To get remove them: You should be able to simply tap and hold on one of the color drops, and then drag it off the canvas. It should then disappear. You might have to do this for each individual drop.

[blodsmak]

Thanks for the suggestion!

Alas, this didn´t work for me. There was no response whatsoever as i tried to manipulate the dots in the manner explained.

I restarted the app and they were gone, and now I can´t seem to recreate the steps taken to make them appear.

It would be nice to know what they are "officially" called, so I can try to find them in the documentation, because all my homegrown suggestions in both Google and this community has wielded nothing. 😞