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Adobe Photoshop Help Painting
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To fill a selection or a layer with a foreground or background color:
1 Specify a foreground or background color. (See “Choosing foreground and background
colors” on page 257 .)
2 Select the area you want to fill. To fill an entire layer, select the layer in the Layers
palette.
3 Choose Edit > Fill to fill the selection or layer. Or to fill a path, select the path and choose
Fill Path from the Paths palette menu.
4 In the Fill dialog box, for Use, choose one of the following options or select a Custom
Pattern:
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Foreground Color, Background Color, Black, 50% Gray, or White to fill the selection with
the specified color.
To apply a foreground color fill only to the areas that contain pixels, press
Alt+Shift+Backspace (Windows) or Shift+Delete (Mac OS). This preserves the
transparency of the layer. To apply a background color fill only to the areas that contain
pixels, press Ctrl+Shift+Backspace (Windows) or Shift+Delete (Mac OS).
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Pattern to fill the selection with a pattern. Click the inverted arrow next to the
pattern sample and select a pattern from the pop-up palette. You can load additional
patterns using the pop-up palette menu. Select the name of a library of patterns or
choose Load Patterns and navigate to the folder containing the patterns you want
to use.
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History to restore the selected area to a state or snapshot of the image. (See “Making a
snapshot of an image (Photoshop)” on page 40 .)
Note: If you fill a CMYK image using the Black option, Photoshop fills all the channels with
100% black. This may result in more ink than is allowable by the printer. For best results
when filling a CMYK image, use the Foreground option with the foreground color set to an
appropriate black.
5 Specify the blending mode and opacity for the paint. (See “Setting options for painting
and editing tools” on page 241 .)
6 If you’re working in a layer and want to fill only areas containing pixels, choose Preserve
Transparency.
7 If you are filling a path, enter a Feather Radius value to blend the edges of the filled path
and select Anti-aliased if you want to anti-alias the path.
To fill the work canvas:
1 Set the foreground color you want to use for the canvas.
2 Select the paint bucket tool .
3 In the options bar, set Fill to Foreground.
4 Hold down Shift, and click in the work canvas.
Note: You need to be in full screen mode and viewing the menus to fill the work canvas.