Fill the work canvas, Fill a selection with a pattern, Stroke a selection or layer with color – Adobe Photoshop CS4 User Manual
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Specify the blending mode and opacity for the paint. (See “
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If you’re working in a layer and want to fill only areas containing pixels, choose Preserve Transparency.
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Click the OK button to apply the fill.
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 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 Command+Shift+Delete (Mac OS).
Fill the work canvas
The work canvas surrounds the image area. You can fill the canvas with a different color that contrasts better with a
given image.
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Right-click the work canvas, and choose Gray, Black, or Custom. (To specify the custom color, choose Select
Custom Color.)
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Fill a selection with a pattern
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Select the part of the image you want to fill.
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Do one of the following:
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Choose Edit > Fill. In the Fill dialog box, for Use, choose Pattern, select a pattern from the pop-up panel, and
click
OK.
If Pattern is dimmed, you need to load a pattern library before you can select this option.
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Select the Paint Bucket tool
. In the options bar, choose Pattern from the Fill pop-up menu, and select a pattern
from the Pattern pop-up panel. Then click to fill the selected area with the pattern.
Note: You can load additional pattern libraries into the pop-up panel prior to making a selection. (See “
Stroke a selection or layer with color
You can use the Stroke command to paint a colored border around a selection, path, or layer. When you create a border
this way, it becomes a rasterized part of the current layer.
To create shape or layer borders that can be turned on or off like overlays and are anti-aliased to create softer-edged
corners and edges, use the Stroke layer effect instead of the Stroke command. See “
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Choose a foreground color.
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Select the area or layer you want to stroke.
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Choose Edit > Stroke.
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In the Stroke dialog box, specify the width of the hard-edged border.
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For Location, specify whether to place the border inside, outside, or centered over the selection or layer boundaries.
Note: If the layer contents fill the entire image, a stroke applied outside the layer will not be visible.
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Specify an opacity and a blending mode. (See “