Fast Ways to Fill
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Fast Ways to Fill

on Aug 1st 2012 with 16 comments
Tutorial Details
  • Applications Used: Adobe Photoshop CS6
  • Difficulty: Beginner
  • Estimated Completion Time: 13 Minutes

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This entry is part 1 of 34 in the Shortcuts on Psdtuts Session
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In this episode we are going to learn useful ways to fill in layers and selections using keyboard shortcuts. We will also learn a universal shortcut that works with the Pen tool and the Type tool. Let’s get started!

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  • oscar

    COuls you also show us how to fill the heart with those icons?? are they symbols ?

    • Fazlur

      yeah, i would like to see the tutorial how to fill a shape with icon or symbols, does anyone know what this technique called? *sorry for bad english.

  • http://gplus.to/MatthewSabia Matthew Sabia

    Please make more tutorials on YouTube and embed them here. Using the blip.tv player is like going to hell and back… ;)

    • http://psd.tutsplus.com/ Grant Friedman

      That’s the plan moving forward.

  • Kieran Hawes

    Some really useful tips here, thanks!

  • http://openblog.in Sisir

    Useful thanks! Looking forward to use PS CS6 :)

  • http://suruha.com Su Hall

    This was a really helpful tut! Some of those features were not known by me before this. I will definitely start using these fill shortcuts.

    So, thank you!

    Su

  • Thomas

    Great stuff! However, the shortcut to apply the background color to selected text (in PS CS 5.5 on Win 7), Ctrl-backspace, deletes the selected text. What am I doing wrong? Alt-backspace works.

  • proedayan

    Is there any download link to video? Due to some reasons video is streaming for me. Thanks

  • Soumya

    This is great! Thank you so much!

  • http://www.facebook.com/jill.wieder Jill Weiskopf Wieder

    This was incredibly helpful but didn’t work for me. I am using CS6 on a brand new Macbook Pro and when I tried to change the font color to the foreground color with the option/backspace command, it just kerned the letters closer together and with the command/backspace command, the letters kerned further apart. Also the shift/backspace command did not pull up the fill dialog box. I am so disappointed! Am I missing something here?

    • DaisyDoo

      when your cursor is somewhere inbetween the letters of the text, option/backspace will indeed change the kerning of the letters. Make sure you do not have a cursor anywhere in the text (use the Move tool or something else). Then it should work!

  • http://www.facebook.com/jill.wieder Jill Weiskopf Wieder

    Ok, so my 14 year old son pointed out to me that I was using the Back Arrow key instead of the Delete (or Backspace) key. However the Shift/Backspace key still did not bring up the fill dialogue box. Suggestions anyone?

  • Tomek

    7 minutes of video = very useful shortcuts :) thanks!

  • http://www.facebook.com/cklees Claudia Klees

    You’re awesome.

  • LaeValktein

    Great workflow.