ABSTRACT
Foreground color and shape layers When you paste artwork from Illustrator into Photoshop as a shape layer, the color of the resulting shape layer is not determined by the fill color applied to the objects in Illustrator. The color of your new shape layer is determined by the current foreground color within Photoshop. That is why on this page, when we paste art from illustrator into Photoshop as a new shape layer, the foreground color is set up prior to pasting. However, you can always change the color of a shape layer after the fact by double-clicking the thumbnail in the layers palette.
