Selective replace foreground-color with background-color

Hi,
I'm new to Photoshop and coming from paint shop pro (psp).
Now I have to recolor a black dotted arrow in a bitmap to red.
All other contents are black, too. In psp there is a tool/brush to
replace foreground-color with background-color. So I'd select
black as foreground-color and red as background-color, hover
with cursor over the area to recolor and that's it.
How to do it with Photoshop?
Thanks in advance
Jörg

softmonauts wrote:
Now I have to recolor a black dotted arrow in a bitmap to red.
All other contents are black, too.
Can you clarify this? It sounds like you have a black arrow on a black background.

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