Color Picker Doesn't Work

I'm using PSE8 on a PC with Windows7 and something seems to be wrong with my color picker in the Editor. I click on the Foreground icon (lower left of the screen), choose a color, click OK, and it doesn't change the color on the icon. The default colors seem to be only black, white or gray. I am in RGB color mode (under Image) and I have clicked Convert Color Profile to "Convert to Adobe RGB Profile" which is now grayed out. Under Edit>Preferences>General, I have selected Adobe as the Color Picker. Can anyone figure out why I am not getting the color I select for the Foreground color? Thanks for any suggestions at all!

Does your image have an adjustment layer or a layer mask
on the layer that is active when using the color picker?
If you have an adjustment layer, make another layer active
and see what happens.
If the layer that is active has a layer mask, click on image
thumbnail to the left of the layer mask and try the color
picker.
MTSTUNER

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Possibly you are missing something in the way you apply this command. Here's how I use it to select patchy clouds with ragged edges and continuously varying shades of gray:
Select the eyedropper tool on the Toolbar and on the options bar set the sample size to 3x3.
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All the while, keep an eye on the dialog box display which shows what you've selected, albeit crudely. If you pick up unwanted colors, switch to the "subtract from sample" (minus) eyedropper and drag it over those areas.
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Hi there,
I have a problem with CS3. Since a few weeks I can't use properly "Colour Range" feature.
Especially for bright colour the Colour Range doesn't select what I want to select. For example I want to select a bright cloud and can't select it with Colour Range. Of course I checked if there is any information or I have a burn area.
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Possibly you are missing something in the way you apply this command. Here's how I use it to select patchy clouds with ragged edges and continuously varying shades of gray:
Select the eyedropper tool on the Toolbar and on the options bar set the sample size to 3x3.
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Set a trial fuzziness of,say,50. Click with the eyedropper on a point in the midst of the color you want to select. That's your "base" color.
Then switch to the "Color Added" (plus) eyedropper, holding the left mouse button down while dragging it over areas deviating from the base color but which you want included.
If there are non-contiguous areas with still different colors you also want to include, release the mouse and move the cursor to those areas before dragging again.
All the while, keep an eye on the dialog box display which shows what you've selected, albeit crudely. If you pick up unwanted colors, switch to the "subtract from sample" (minus) eyedropper and drag it over those areas.
When you think you've got it about right, experiment with the fuzziness slider to see if you can improve things by increasing or decreasing fuzziness.
Don't re-use the plain eyedropper unless you want to start all over again. Optionally, instead of switching among the 3 eyedroppers, you can activate only the plain eyedropper but use it with SHIFT to add or ALT to subtract.

Why the picking doesn't work

Hi everybody:
i am working on a java 3d demo which uses picking as the collision avoidance utility.the code below is quite simple but in fact it cant pick anything. the problem has made me crazy for quite a long time and i still not find out the correction answer.if anyone could solve this problem ,i will be very thankful~ :)
public class TestBound extends Applet {
BranchGroup root;
public void createBranchGraph() {
root = new BranchGroup();
TransformGroup rootTG = new TransformGroup();
rootTG.addChild(new ColorCube(0.4));
root.addChild(rootTG);
//root.setPickable(true);
//root.setCapability(Node.ALLOW_BOUNDS_READ);
//root.setCapability(Node.ENABLE_PICK_REPORTING);
root.compile();
public TestBound() {
setLayout(new BorderLayout());
Canvas3D canvas = new
Canvas3D(SimpleUniverse.getPreferredConfiguration());
add("Center",canvas);
createBranchGraph();
SimpleUniverse su = new SimpleUniverse(canvas);
su.getViewingPlatform().setNominalViewingTransform();
su.addBranchGraph(root);
//System.out.println(new BoundingBoxGenerator(scene).getBounds());
public static void main (String[] args) {
TestBound tb = new TestBound();
new JMainFrame (tb,256,256).setVisible(true);
PickTool tool = new PickTool(tb.root);
tool.setShapeRay(new Point3d(1000,0,0),new Vector3d(-1,0,0));
System.out.println(tool.pickAny() == null);
the picking ray should intersect with the color cube,but in fact it cant pick anything and returns null always.

Have you tried reducing the distance to the point3d in your picktool - it looks like it is outside of the bounds for the cube. Have you looked at the picking demos that you downloaded with the j3d distribution? They are often a good starting point for picking up this kind of technique.

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