User Guide

CHAPTER 9
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Painting
To fill a selection or layer using shortcuts:
1 Specify a foreground or background color as
described in “Choosing the foreground and
background colors” on page 214.
2 Select the area or layer you want to fill.
3 Apply the fill:
• To fill with the foreground color, press
Alt+Backspace (Windows) or Option+Delete
(Mac OS).
• To apply a foreground color fill only to the areas
that contain pixels, press Alt+Shift+Backspace
(Windows) or Option+Shift+Delete (Mac OS).
This operation preserves the transparency of the
layer.
• To fill with the background color, press
Ctrl+Backspace (Windows) or Command+Delete
(Mac OS).
• To apply a background color fill only to the areas
that contain pixels, press Ctrl+Shift+Backspace
(Windows) or Command+Shift+Delete
(Mac OS).
To fill the work canvas:
1 Set the foreground color you want to use for the
canvas. (See “Choosing the foreground and
background colors” on page 214.)
2 Select and double-click the paint bucket tool to
display its Options palette.
3 For Contents, choose Foreground.
4 Hold down Shift and click in the work canvas
area surrounding the image.
To fill a selection or a layer:
1 Specify a foreground or background color as
described in “Choosing the foreground and
background colors” on page 214.
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.
To display the Fill dialog box, press
Shift+Backspace (Windows) or
Shift+Delete (Mac OS).
4 For Use, choose an option:
• Foreground Color, Background Color, Black,
50% Gray, or White to fill the selection with the
specified color.
• Pattern to fill the selection with a pattern.
Filling with patterns is discussed in the following
procedures.
• History to restore the selected area to a state or
snapshot of the image (see “Painting with a state or
snapshot of the image” on page 172).
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 an opacity and blending mode, as
explained in “Using the Options palette for
painting and editing tools” on page 203.
6 If you’re working in a layer and want to fill only
areas containing pixels, select Preserve Trans-
parency. (See “Preserving a layer’s transparency”
on page 269.)