AboutDan Loffler Expertise I can help with specific "How To" questions. No Photoshop Elements questions please.
Experience I have been using Photoshop every day in my work as an Art Director and Graphic Artist since 1993 with version 2.5. I am currently employed as a Creative Director in Miami. I have taught computer graphics classes at CompUSA, Computer City. I currently teach a crash course on Photoshop to digital photographers on Digital Photography Corner's Digital Photography Cruises. I have worked as a personal Photoshop tutor for clients as far away as Seoul Korea.
Expert: Dan Loffler Date: 6/14/2008 Subject: How to Change background color
Question Hi,
I'm doing a poster for my final year project and I've created a compilation of pictures and words in the poster. The poster background by default is white color... so I was wondering how can I change the color to say light Blue?
THanks
Answer Hi Kenny,
On the bottom of the tool bar is two boxes. These boxes are your Foreground and Background colors by default they are black and white. If you click one of them a color picker will come up, where you can change the color.
The foreground color will be the color for you fill and paint tools, while the background color will work when you delete or erase something.
Delete or erase will not fill with the background color unless you are on the "Background" layer. if you are any other layer it will just delete or erase pixels from the layer.
Try picking the foreground color and using the "Paint Bucket" tool to fill the background.
