Preserved Topic: Photoshop 5.5 Problem... (Page 1 of 1)

I am using 5.5 on a Mac running 9.0.4 and, after trying to find the comparable hotkeys to the ones Phong uses in his tutorials, Edit->Fill doesn't seem to work.

I can fill black/white/50% but forground/background doesn't work. I get a history entry but there appears to be no color(working in RGB). <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/confused.gif">

Another quickie: is there a good, compiled, list of the Mac hotkeys someplace? <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/biggrin.gif">

Sounds to me like either the layer you're wanting to fill isn't selected, or the color(s) may be too close to what you're trying to fill(?)

I have a G4 running 9.0.4 and PS 5.5 and I don't have the problem you're describing.

As for hot keys...I use to use the card that comes with PS, that seems helpful to learn the key strokes.

hey how do u guys get that line in ur signature? You know like that line that goes thru myoclone, and papa remember ur old sig it had a line and then said 2winspapa. Can u guys help me out on makin that?

-Cr0n0-

I just used the eliptical marquee to make the line behind the text. Then I did some layers schtuph and woooooya! There ya go. <img border=0 align=absmiddle src="http://www.ozones.com/forum/biggrin.gif">

I can't remember the Phong keys you refer too, and I'm not clear what you mean by "hot" keys. There are keyboard shortcuts for tons of stuff which are part of Photoshop; then there are the function keys at the top of your keyboard to which you can custom assign stuff by way of actions. (you create an action, simple or complex, and in the actions dialog you have the option of assigning it to an F-Key).You can find the built-in shortcuts on the card that comes with Photshop and in lots of b ooks (Deke's Photoshop Bible for instance). Everyone's F-Key collection is unique to how they work, so you can't really find a difinative list anywhere. Make your own! I try to learn as many of the keyboard shorcuts as possible and assign F-Keys to things there aren't keyboard equivalents for. For instance, Option plus Delete will fill the current layer or selection with the current foreground color; Shift plus Delete opens the Fill dialog and you have a bunch more choices. That's part of Photoshop - no need to waste an F-Key with that. But there is no keyboard shortcut to open the Gaussian Blur dialog, or the Image>Size dialog, or the Crop menu command. I use these all the time, so I set one-step actions to call 'em up from the keyboard.

So to get back to your question, uuhh, what was it? I guess you want to press (on a Mac) the Option and the Delete keys simultaneously to fill with the foreground color at 100%. Did I come close to answering the question? If you are seeing a dialog with, among other things, 50% gray then you must be pressing Shift and Delete instead.