Adobe ADBCD17648MC Manuel D’Utilisation

USING PHOTOSHOP ELEMENTS 8
Painting

You apply the foreground color when you paint with the Brush or Pencil tools, and when you fill selections with the 
Paint Bucket tool. The color you apply to the Background layer with the Eraser tool is called the background 
color. You can see and change the foreground and background colors in the two overlapping boxes at the bottom of 
the toolbox. The top box is the foreground color, and the bottom box is the background color. The foreground and 
background colors are also used together by the Gradient tool and some special effects filters.

You can change the foreground or background color in the toolbox by using the Eyedropper tool, the Color Swatches 
panel, or the Color Picker.

Blending modes control how pixels in an image are affected by a painting or editing tool. It’s helpful to think in terms 
of the following colors when visualizing a blending mode’s effect: 

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The base color is the original color in the image.

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The blend color is the color applied by the painting or editing tool.

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The result color is the color resulting from the blend.