Bug when trying to change text color from color picker dialog

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alicia_chastain
Jan 14, 2004
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Product: Photoshop CS
Version: 8.o
Platform: Windows XP

Scenario:
I have a text layer with a layer mask. Using the text tool, I select all of the text in my layer. Returning to the tool palette, I click on the "foreground color chip" to launch the color picker dialog. Placing my mouse over my image, outside of the dialog so that my cursor changes to a dropper, I select a color in my image. The gradiated color square in the color picker dialog blinks once (goes to white then back to the gradient) without selecting my color. Bummer.

Upon further experimentation, it looks like the layer won’t maintain focus on the text portion. It keeps switching over the the layer mask portion every time I click my text tool onto the text. This focus issue doesn’t interfere with my typing, but it is preventing me from changing the color of my type.

So sad 🙁
-alicia

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barry_gray
Jan 14, 2004
with type tool selected AND text selected > click on the color picker in the options tool bar at the top, not the tool bar picker.
Did that fix it?
AC
alicia_chastain
Jan 20, 2004
Interesting. That sorta works. If I pick a color from the color wheel (let’s say orange) my text changes, but the color chip in the options tool bar does not. My sentence has two colors of type. It seems like that is confusing the color chip.

I’m seeing something else weird using the color picker launched from the options tool bar when I follow the same scenario with the options tool bar. However, if i try to click on some text in my photoshop document to select a color, the color picker doesn’t select it. It just picks white. Which I guess is the background color. Odd.

At least I kinda have a work around by using the options tool bar. thanks!

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