The color picker or dropper, is used to select the active colors for use in an image.

There are two active colors, the foreground color and the background color.

To reverse the foreground and background colors, click the color switcher in the Active Colors panel of the Color palette.

You can select the active colors from:

When you select an active color from the Color palette’s Select Color panel, Paint Shop Pro chooses the color in the panel that is closest to the image’s available colors. If the image has 16 million colors, the new color will match the color in the panel. To select specific hue, saturation, and lightness, use the Color dialog box.

Click either the foreground or background color box to access it. When an image has 256 or fewer colors (sometimes referred to as a paletted image), its colors are contained in an image palette. You can change a color in the palette but not increase the number of colors.

When you pick a color from the Select Color panel, you are limited to the colors in the palette. Paint Shop Pro uses the color from the palette that is the closest match to the color you picked. You may find it easier to select colors directly from the palette. To do this, click either the foreground or background color box to access the Select Color from Palette dialog box.