After searching around the net for the answer I believed that I had
found out how to change the colors of the text in the JProgressBar via
UIManager.put("ProgressBar.selectionForeground", new
ColorUIResource(Color.BLACK)) and ("ProgressBar.selectionBackground",
new ColorUIResource(Color.BLACK)) however this doesn't work.  Does
anyone know what I am doing wrong I have attached my code.

// FirstScreen.java
package PropertyManager;

import Utilities.SLOConstants;
import java.awt.*;
import java.awt.event.*;
import java.util.*;
import javax.swing.*;
import javax.swing.plaf.ColorUIResource;

public class FirstScreen extends JWindow
{
    private int timerClock;
    private int timerLength;
    private JProgressBar progBar;

    public FirstScreen(int numSecs)
    {
        this.timerLength = numSecs * 1000;
        this.timerClock = 0;

        this.progBar = new JProgressBar(JProgressBar.CENTER, 0,
this.timerLength);

        Color orange = new Color(255, 122, 56);
        Color lightOrange = new Color(255, 182, 147);
       
        JPanel content = (JPanel) getContentPane( );
        content.setBackground(Color.white);

        int width = 530;
        int height =300;

        Dimension screen = Toolkit.getDefaultToolkit( ).getScreenSize( );
        int x = (screen.width-width)/2;
        int y = (screen.height-height)/2;

        setBounds(x,y,width,height);

        JLabel label = new JLabel(new ImageIcon(SLOConstants.IMAGES_PATH +
"splashLogo.gif"));

        progBar.setString("Initializing Property Manager ... Please Wait");
        progBar.setStringPainted(true);
        progBar.setForeground(orange);
        progBar.setBackground(orange);

        UIManager.put("ProgressBar.selectionBackground", new
ColorUIResource(Color.BLACK));
        UIManager.put("ProgressBar.selectionForeground", new
ColorUIResource(Color.BLACK));

        progBar.setFont(new Font("Arial", Font.BOLD|Font.ITALIC, 17));
        progBar.setBorder(BorderFactory.createLineBorder(orange, 0));
        progBar.setBorderPainted(false);

        content.add(label, BorderLayout.CENTER);
        content.add(progBar, BorderLayout.SOUTH);

        content.setBorder(BorderFactory.createLineBorder(orange, 5));
    }

    public void showSplash( )
    {
        setVisible(true);

        for(  timerClock = 0; timerClock < timerLength; timerClock += 10 )
        {
            progBar.setValue(timerClock);

            try
            {
                Thread.sleep(10);
            }
            catch(Exception e){}
        }
    }

    public void showSplashAndClose( )
    {
        showSplash( );
        dispose();
    }

    public static void main(String[] args)
    {
        //FirstScreen splash = new FirstScreen(2);
    }
}