Manic Monday Photoshop & Photoshop Elements Tips: Quick Fill Commands

Manic Monday Photoshop Tips: Quick Fill Commands

April 4, 2011

Today’s tips will have you using the Quick Fill commands like a pro. Here are a few ways to access and use the Fill tool:

• The Fill tool keyboard shortcut is (G)
• To access the Fill menu use Shift + F5
• To bypass the menu use 
• alt + backspace to fill with the foreground color, 
• command + backspace to fill with the background color
• Using these shorts cuts you can quickly fill a selection or set the color for type and shape layers
• If you want to preserve the transparency of your selection you should first lock the transparency layer by pressing / (backslash) and then the fill command
• Or an even simpler option is to press alt + shift + backspace or ctrl + shift + backspace to fill the foreground or background with color and preserve the transparency

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