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## Selecting Colors

Acorn's color wells for setting fill/stroke, and fore/background colors is in the tool palette:

The color in front is the current brush stroke color. If you are using shapes then the color in front would be the fill color of the shape. The color in the background is the stroke color for shapes, or the end color for gradients.

To swap the fore and back colors, just press the 'x' key, or use the swap colors button- the one with the two arrows on the ends.

If you would like to change a color, just click on one of the color wells, and the Color Window will come up:

You can also use the eyedropper button, located to the right of the color wells. This will allow you to pick a color off of any point on your screen.

You can also change the opcaity of the current color by using the Opacity slider near the bottom of the Colors window. You can also store your favorite colors by dragging and dropping them into the little boxes at the bottom of the Color window.

To reset the color wells back to black and white, just double click on an image well while holding the down the command key.

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