In this lesson video, we are going to discuss on how we can select colors inside Krita. In Krita, there are several ways we can do to select colors. First, perhaps the most noticeable color selector is the advanced color selector darker at the right pop area. To choose a color. First, you need to specify the hue wheel in here. Essentially, the hue will determine what is the base color you want to use.

After you set off with the hue color, you can then move on to picking the saturation and the value of it. By default Krita use this triangle shaped color selector. The idea is like this. The more you go towards this point, the more high saturated the color will get. The more you go to this point, the blacker the color will be. And the more you go to this point, the whiter the color will be.

Okay. Using this triangle is actually enough for us to pick any color that we want. But if you come from Photoshop, you might feel that this triangle is a bit too small. To display all of the colors you want to pick Alhamdulillah Krita comes with a rectangular style for the color selector. To change it, we can click on this button, we can see color selector thumbnail in here, click on it, and then choose this square one that looks more like Photoshop color selector. Click the OK button.

As we can see, the advanced color selector has changed to rectangular style shape. Another way to access the setting is by going to the settings menu and then configure Krita. In the color selector settings, we can see the same exact interface we saw before. Click Cancel for now as we don't need to change anything. Let's see what these three bars can be. For us, when coloring or painting, we often need to slightly adjust the color to a certain direction.

The first bar can be used to offset the color slightly in the wheel. So for example, if we have green color selected originally, dragging this to the right will make it rotate a bit clockwise and dragging these to the left will make it rotate a bit counterclockwise. The second bar will offset color diagonally this way and the last bar will offset the color diagonally also, but this way, okay, so that is how you can select color using advanced color selector. Another way to select color is to click on one of these two active colors up here in Krita. As with any other graphic software, there are two types of active color. This is the foreground color And this one is the background color.

Now, as far as I know, this foreground background paradigm is the legacy concept from Photoshop. In Photoshop foreground color is used by the brush, and the background color is used by the eraser. But really, the only color that matter is just the foreground color. Background Color only used rarely for certain tasks, and mostly only serves as a second color placeholder for quick switching between two colors. My point is, the term foreground and background is actually inaccurate, because these terms are generally used for describing the depth in composition. While in practice, they have nothing to do with depth sorting.

They are just color placeholders. Okay, so to select a foreground color, we can click on this small top left color box in Here, in this panel, we can see the same color wheel we see in here. Although somehow it is flipped, we can see the RGB values in here. We have a lot of color presets or swatches at the right side that we can take the two boxes down here, the left one shows the selected color, and the right one shows the previously active color. With this we can compare the color before and after the color selection. As with brushes, creator Support Library Management also for colors.

We can see if we click on this pull down list button, we see a list of color swatches. Also, we can name the color in here. We can sample any color on the canvas by clicking on this button and then click on any area in Canvas. And down here we can see the hexadecimal code For the currently selected color, let's click OK for now, we can select color for the background color the same way, but we need to click this small color box at the right bottom. Okay. Another way to select background color is by using the advanced color selector darker we have discussed before.

When you do click and drag on the wheel and clicking in this area, you actually picking color for the foreground color, not the background color. But if you click and drag the wheel using the right mouse button and click in this area also with the right mouse button, you are changing the background color, not the foreground color. So again, left mouse button is for the foreground color and right mouse button is for the background color. Okay, for this foreground and background colors, there are several you Useful keyboard shortcuts that we can use. First is the letter key. D will make the colors back to their defaults, and that will be black for the foreground color and white for the background color.

Essentially, pressing D is the same as clicking on this small button up here. The next shortcut is X Factor key. X is used to swap colors between foreground and background color. pressing X is equivalent to pressing this small button up here, which looks like two arrows Bender, if we already have preferred foreground color and background color, for example, let's pick orange for the foreground color and blue for the background color. Okay, we can use these colors to quickly fill out an entire layer or just a selection. I know we haven't discussed about layer or selection here.

But just bear with me for now, let's see how we can fill the entire layer with the background color. Okay. To do that, we can press the backspace key. As we can see, the entire layer is now colored in blue. To fill the layer with foreground color, we can hold shift and then backspace. Now the layer is flooded with orange color.

So again, use shift Backspace to fill with foreground color, and Backspace to fill with background color. If you forget the shortcuts, you can go to Edit menu and we can see both of the commands and the shortcuts in here.