Color on fill is different than picker

Confused wrote:

Help!

I am pretty new to Photoshop…and I am running into a bit of a problem.

When I pick a color with the picker, the color shows up correctly on the squares….but when I use the paint bucket to paint that color, a totally different "hue" paints….

Would anyone know what the heck is going on?

Thanks for your help!

Should work if the Fill is selected to Foreground and the color you want is in the Foreground color box, the Mode is set to Normal and Opacity to 100% … if this doesn’t do it can you describe how far off the colors are and what the foreground/background colors are?

Confused wrote:

Help!

I am pretty new to Photoshop…and I am running into a bit of a problem.

When I pick a color with the picker, the color shows up correctly on the squares….but when I use the paint bucket to paint that color, a totally different "hue" paints….

Would anyone know what the heck is going on?

Thanks for your help!

I can’t explain why but I have better luck setting the foreground color to what I want the selecting the area I want filled then using the key sequence Alt+backspace. Don’t ask me why, probably based on superstition, but is seems like the keyboard fill works better (more predictable) than the bucket fill.

Good luck,
Ron

Confused wrote:

Help!

I am pretty new to Photoshop…and I am running into a bit of a problem.

When I pick a color with the picker, the color shows up correctly on the squares….but when I use the paint bucket to paint that color, a totally different "hue" paints….

Would anyone know what the heck is going on?

Thanks for your help!

In the Color Picker is there a little triangle warning icon to the right of the color square? If so, that indicates the color selected is Out of Gamut, meaning it can’t be used in the color space you have chosen.

For more info look up Color Picker and Gamut in Photoshop Help.

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No, no Triangle.

edjh wrote:

Confused wrote:

Help!

I am pretty new to Photoshop…and I am running into a bit of a problem.

When I pick a color with the picker, the color shows up correctly on the squares….but when I use the paint bucket to paint that color, a totally different "hue" paints….

Would anyone know what the heck is going on?

Thanks for your help!

In the Color Picker is there a little triangle warning icon to the right of the color square? If so, that indicates the color selected is Out of Gamut, meaning it can’t be used in the color space you have chosen.
For more info look up Color Picker and Gamut in Photoshop Help.
—
Comic book sketches and artwork:
http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/edjh.html
Comics art for sale:
http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/batsale.html

I have the foreground and the back ground set at

R – 0
G – 255
B – 0

What the pain bucket fills;

R – 105
B – 189
G – 69

Way off…and I have no idea why?

I have color picked the foreground and back ground….

Bill Hilton wrote:

Confused wrote:

Help!

I am pretty new to Photoshop…and I am running into a bit of a problem.

When I pick a color with the picker, the color shows up correctly on the squares….but when I use the paint bucket to paint that color, a totally different "hue" paints….

Would anyone know what the heck is going on?

Thanks for your help!

Should work if the Fill is selected to Foreground and the color you want is in the Foreground color box, the Mode is set to Normal and Opacity to 100% … if this doesn’t do it can you describe how far off the colors are and what the foreground/background colors are?

"Confused" wrote in message

No, no Triangle.

make sure you are not in a funny blend mode
set it to normal

edjh wrote:

Confused wrote:

Help!

I am pretty new to Photoshop…and I am running into a bit of a problem.

When I pick a color with the picker, the color shows up correctly on the squares….but when I use the paint bucket to paint that color, a totally different "hue" paints….

Would anyone know what the heck is going on?

Thanks for your help!

In the Color Picker is there a little triangle warning icon to the right of the color square? If so, that indicates the color selected is Out of Gamut, meaning it can’t be used in the color space you have chosen.
For more info look up Color Picker and Gamut in Photoshop Help.
—
Comic book sketches and artwork:
http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/edjh.html
Comics art for sale:
http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/batsale.html

"Confused" wrote in message

I have the foreground and the back ground set at
R – 0
G – 255
B – 0

What the paint bucket fills;
R – 105
B – 189
G – 69

Way off…and I have no idea why?
I have color picked the foreground and back ground….

Ok – crystal ball time. Your image is in CMYK mode, using the default v2 SWOP coated profile. You are picking a pure RGB color, and not seeing the warning triangle edjh mentioned. It is in the color picker, next to the color sample and to the left of the OK and Cancel buttons. The fill color is changed to RGB(105,189,69) because it has been clipped to fit into the CMYK color space. You’ve set the mode of the info palette to RGB, and are reading RGB values from a CMYK image.

The solution is to create your image in RGB mode. If your image is going to be printed on a press, then you will have to live with the fact that CMYK cannot print as pure a green (or blue, or red) as RGB.
—
Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com/forum/

Perfect, thanks all!

-brad
Mike Russell wrote:

"Confused" wrote in message

I have the foreground and the back ground set at
R – 0
G – 255
B – 0

What the paint bucket fills;
R – 105
B – 189
G – 69

Way off…and I have no idea why?
I have color picked the foreground and back ground….

Ok – crystal ball time. Your image is in CMYK mode, using the default v2 SWOP coated profile. You are picking a pure RGB color, and not seeing the warning triangle edjh mentioned. It is in the color picker, next to the color sample and to the left of the OK and Cancel buttons. The fill color is changed to RGB(105,189,69) because it has been clipped to fit into the CMYK color space. You’ve set the mode of the info palette to RGB, and are reading RGB values from a CMYK image.

The solution is to create your image in RGB mode. If your image is going to be printed on a press, then you will have to live with the fact that CMYK cannot print as pure a green (or blue, or red) as RGB.
—
Mike Russell
www.curvemeister.com/forum/

Mike Russell wrote:

Ok – crystal ball time. Your image is in CMYK mode, using the default v2 SWOP coated profile. You are picking a pure RGB color …
The solution is to create your image in RGB mode.

Good catch Mike!

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"Confused" wrote:

When I pick a color with the picker, the color shows up correctly on the squares….but when I use the paint bucket to paint that color, a totally different "hue" paints….

First of all, you are already making a mistake. Do not use the Paint Bucket to fill an area with color. Unlike other image editing programs, Photoshop’s Paint Bucket is *not* a Fill tool.

The Paint Bucket is a combination of the Fill command and the Magic Wand tool. When you click, it analyzes the color fo the pixel you clicked on, then spreads out in all directions, filling as it goes, until it hits an area of different color.

If you use it on an area that is empty or all one color, it can act like a Fill tool, which is what often confuses newcomers to Photoshop. But if you use it on part of an image that already has things in it, then it will not fill the entire area.

In Photoshop, there is no Fill tool. You do not use any tool on the toolbar in order to fill an area in color. In Photoshop, the way you fill an area with color is you hold down the ALT key on your keyboard and press the DELETE or BACKSPACE key.

There are several reasons why you may be having thee trouble you are having.

Your Paint Bucket tool may be set to some unusual mode, or not be set to 100% opacity. Or the image you are working on may be indexed color, like a GIF; go to the Image menu, click on the MODE submenu, and make sure it says RGB Color, not Indexed Color. Or you may be working on a CMYK image but you may be using a color that you can not get in CMYK.

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I can’t explain why but I have better luck setting the foreground color to what I want the selecting the area I want filled then using the key sequence Alt+backspace. Don’t ask me why, probably based on superstition, but is seems like the keyboard fill works better (more predictable) than the bucket fill.

It does–because the Paint Bucket tool is not a Fill tool, and will not always fill the entire selected area with color. The Paint Bucket only fills pixels that are similar in color to the pixel you clicked on.

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tacit wrote:

In Photoshop, there is no Fill tool. You do not use any tool on the toolbar in order to fill an area in color. In Photoshop, the way you fill an area with color is you hold down the ALT key on your keyboard and press the DELETE or BACKSPACE key.

Or you use the Fill menu. There is indeed no tool, but there is a menu. The menu gives you the option to choose another color than the forground or background colors, and the option to use different blend modes and/or a pattern.

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tacit wrote:

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"" wrote:

I can’t explain why but I have better luck setting the foreground color to what I want the selecting the area I want filled then using the key sequence Alt+backspace. Don’t ask me why, probably based on superstition, but is seems like the keyboard fill works better (more predictable) than the bucket fill.

It does–because the Paint Bucket tool is not a Fill tool, and will not always fill the entire selected area with color. The Paint Bucket only fills pixels that are similar in color to the pixel you clicked on.
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Nice to know.

Thanks,
Ron