On 04/03/2015 03:36 PM, C R wrote:
Not to be a pain, but if you have a selection already (that you want to keep), clicking and dragging a colour fills the selection, which is not the same as making a new layer with foreground/background, or white. If I'm outvoted on the issue though, I will simply change my workflow. The hotkeys for fill with fg and bg are useful. Also don't forget the "x" key, which swaps foreground and background colours (I use this a lot when painting masks). The "d" key changes the fg and bg colours to black and white (d for default) as well. This is the same in Photoshop. On Fri, Apr 3, 2015 at 5:47 PM, Elle Stone <ellestone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx <mailto:ellestone@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>> wrote: As long as shift-click and dragging a color to the new layer keeps on working, changing the new layer dialog doesn't present any problem that I can see. In case anyone else doesn't already know this, if you have a selection made, dragging the color to the layer fills the selection. It's a very convenient shortcut.
The very convenient shortcut that I meant was dragging the color to the layer.
Earlier in this message I think someone mentioned that their workflow involved making a selection and only filling that selection with a color, which is why I mentioned that if you already have a selection made, the dragged color will fill the selection.
In my own workflow, I don't fill selections with colors. Instead I use a mask to mask off the area that I want to be affected by the layer color.
Thanks! for the tip about using "x" for swapping the foreground and background color. That's a lot more convenient than moving the mouse to click the swap foreground/background button.
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