help, problem :of the layer is not directly editable

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chorba
Oct 28, 2003
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didn’t find it on the faq. can you help me ?

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Peace_Pipe
Oct 28, 2003
a little more info on your problem, may get you an answer.
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chorba
Oct 28, 2003
I made a circle and tried to paint inside with the paint bucket, then I got an error massage :

could not use the paint bucket because the content
of the layer is not directly editable
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chorba
Oct 28, 2003
and thank you for the help
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graffiti
Oct 28, 2003
That’s because you used the shape tool to create the circle. You can’t edit that with the paint bucket.

Instead, use the Marquee tool, create your circle then fill with the paint bucket.
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Jake_Hannam
Oct 28, 2003
Chorba,

You need to rasterize the layer. Go to Layer – Rasterize – Shape.

As an alternative, you could use the marquee tool (ellipse) and fill that.

Jake
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LenHewitt
Oct 28, 2003
Chorba,

You created a (vector) shape layer. You cannot fill a vector with the paintbucket.

You need to select "Fill Pixels" symbol in the Options bar if you want to use the paintbucket
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chorba
Oct 29, 2003
thank you all very very much

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