PhotoPlus X2 User Guide - Serif

74 Painting and Drawing
To define foreground and background colour:
1. Select the Colour Pickup Tool on the Tools toolbar.
2. Left-click with the tool anywhere on an image to "pick up" the colour at that
point as the new foreground colour. Right-click to define a new background
colour.
3. (Optional) On the Context toolbar, set the Sample Size (pickup region) as a
single "Point Sample" or a "3 x 3 Average" or "5 x 5 Average" area.
OR
To switch temporarily to the Colour Pickup tool from a paint, line, shape,
fill, or text tool, hold down the Alt key, then click to define the foreground
colour.
1. On the Colour tab, move the mouse pointer (dropper cursor) around the
Colour Spectrum. As you move the dropper cursor around the spectrum, the
preview swatch to the upper left of the spectrum shows the colour at the
cursor position.
2. Left-click in the spectrum to set a new foreground colour, and right-click to
set a new background colour.
OR
You can change this RGB spectrum to display in Greyscale, or show the
colours spread between the Foreground/Background colours (click the
button on the tab).
1. On the Colour tab, click either the foreground or the background swatch.
2. Use the slider(s) or enter numeric values in the boxes to define a specific
colour. The selected swatch updates instantly.