i shortcut places color in foreground but b shortcut moves that color to the background.

[Junk Stuff]

When using the i Shortcut (eye dropper)it moves that color to the foreground but when pressing B (brush) to use said color it flips and places it in the background. This defeats the purpose of sampling colors then drawing those colors.

 

If there is a way to solve this let me know.

[fde101]

The eyedropper tool sets the fill color by default, while the brush draws with the stroke color.

There are a few ways around this:

• Instead of using the eyedropper tool, simply hold down the option key (if on a Mac - check the status bar along the bottom of the window for which key to use if on Windows, it is probably the alt key?) and click while using the brush tool to select the stroke color (this gives a temporary color picker to use without actually switching tools and should be faster than switching back and forth).
• After choosing the eyedropper tool, click the stroke color's circle in the Color panel to switch which color you are selecting.  Once you make this change it sticks for a while so you can then use the tool as you are apparently attempting to.
• You can use the Shift+X shortcut to swap the stroke and fill colors, so if you pick a color and it winds up in the opposite place from where you wanted it, you can use this shortcut after the fact.

[Junk Stuff]

5 hours ago, fde101 said:

The eyedropper tool sets the fill color by default, while the brush draws with the stroke color.

There are a few ways around this:

• Instead of using the eyedropper tool, simply hold down the option key (if on a Mac - check the status bar along the bottom of the window for which key to use if on Windows, it is probably the alt key?) and click while using the brush tool to select the stroke color (this gives a temporary color picker to use without actually switching tools and should be faster than switching back and forth).
• After choosing the eyedropper tool, click the stroke color's circle in the Color panel to switch which color you are selecting.  Once you make this change it sticks for a while so you can then use the tool as you are apparently attempting to.
• You can use the Shift+X shortcut to swap the stroke and fill colors, so if you pick a color and it winds up in the opposite place from where you wanted it, you can use this shortcut after the fact.

 

 

Thanks! I've never used the Alt approach before. Photoshop required the eye drop tool and honestly I feel it should operate on that straight forward manner. But I'll test it out the Alt process, I'm not sure if I'll like it without the visual que of the eye drop (cross hair symbol) but it could very well be faster. 

[fde101]

5 hours ago, Junk Stuff said:

I feel it should operate on that straight forward manner.

It does, it just defaults to the fill color when first activated.  As I pointed out in the second bullet point, you can change that.