Why won’t Alt-Backspace fill my selection or layer ?

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Pjotr Wedersteers
Jun 24, 2004
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I am using Photoshop CS. In many tutorials I see the keyboard shortcut Alt-Backspace listed as an easy way to fill my layer or current selection. All that happens when I do it is in my history palette an entry "Fill" is added to the list, but no colour is added to my selection or layer/ Anyone know why ? (Preferences already reset to defaults).

Thx
Pjotr
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edjh
Jun 25, 2004
Pjotr Wedersteers wrote:
I am using Photoshop CS. In many tutorials I see the keyboard shortcut Alt-Backspace listed as an easy way to fill my layer or current selection. All that happens when I do it is in my history palette an entry "Fill" is added to the list, but no colour is added to my selection or layer/ Anyone know why ? (Preferences already reset to defaults).

Thx
Pjotr
Is Transparency locked on the layer?

Are you in 16 bit mode?

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Jun 25, 2004
"edjh" wrote in message
Pjotr Wedersteers wrote:
I am using Photoshop CS. In many tutorials I see the keyboard shortcut Alt-Backspace listed as an easy way to fill my layer or current
selection.
All that happens when I do it is in my history palette an entry "Fill"
is
added to the list, but no colour is added to my selection or layer/
Anyone
know why ? (Preferences already reset to defaults).

Thx
Pjotr
Is Transparency locked on the layer?

Are you in 16 bit mode?

—
Comic book sketches and artwork:
http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/edjh.html
Comics art for sale:
http://www.sover.net/~hannigan/batsale.html

Assuming that you are using the defaults as stated above, your foreground swatch should show black and your background swatch should show white. Alt-Backspace should fill your background with black (foreground color) and Control-Backspace should be filling with white (background color).

Start with a new canvas in rgb or cmyk to try it out. 8- or 16-mode doesn’t matter – it should work regardless.
PW
Pjotr Wedersteers
Jun 25, 2004
"Pjotr Wedersteers" wrote in message
I am using Photoshop CS. In many tutorials I see the keyboard shortcut Alt-Backspace listed as an easy way to fill my layer or current selection. All that happens when I do it is in my history palette an entry "Fill" is added to the list, but no colour is added to my selection or layer/ Anyone know why ? (Preferences already reset to defaults).

Thx
Pjotr
I must have done something particular (let you know if I can reproduce it), because a new day, new documents to work with and presto! it all works like it is supposed to. Thanks for your answers!

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