Eyedropper problems

[Goops]

I'm using Photoshop CS6 on Windows 7. I'm having a problem with the eyedropper tool. Whenever I use it to select a color, it sets the background color to the color I picked, if I hold alt it sets it to the foreground color. This should be the other way around shouldn't it? The same thing happens when I use alt + click with the brush tool instead.

I've already tried resetting preferences.

 

[ibclare]

That's correct for the info tool, click for FG, alt click for BG. For the brush however, while painting, you can alt click a color to change the FG. Why you're having the problem, IDK, but also I don't have CS6 to test it out. But others - with cs6 - will be along.

Doesn't Adobe have a site for reporting and listing bugs that may not have been discovered during the beta testing?

 

[Goops]

That's correct for the info tool, click for FG, alt click for BG

I meant that mine was doing the opposite, click for BG alt click for FG.

I suppose they do but 2 of my friends have CS6 and don't have this problem so I assumed it was a setting or something specific that I may have done that was causing it.

 

[ibclare]

Yes, I know that's what you meant. I was agreeing on what should happen. Well, I know it's a pain, but have you tried reinstalling? You might want to go to the Adobe Community website and check there; see if they have a solution for you.

 

[Goops]

Well, reinstalling worked ^_^ I still wonder what caused it in the first place though :| Oh well, thank you

 

[ibclare]

Oh good. No idea on the what of course. It's just like the glitches that get fixed when you reset preferences. But that was a weird one, not just quit working but switched functions.