In article <d26da4$gcv$>,
"canongirly" wrote:
Fill the new layer with soid white colour using the paint bucket.
As an aside, not necessarily relevant to vignetting:
This instruction represents the #1 mistake new users to Photoshop make–believing that the Paint bucket tool is the Fill tool.
In most graphics programs, the Paint Bucket is how you fill an area with color. This is not true in Photoshop. It works in a new layer, but that’s not what it is designed for.
The Paint Bucket tool is a combination of the Magic Wand tool and the Fill command. Here is what it does:
When you click with the Paint Bucket, it examines the color of the pixel you clicked on. Then it spreads out in all directions, filling as it goes, until it hits a pixel that is a different color. When it hits a pixel that is a different color, it stops.
It will fill a layer with color because all the pixels in a new laer are the same color–transparent. However, it is a slow, inefficient way to do this.
IOn Photoshop, if you just want to fill with color, you hold down the ALT key on your keyboard and press Delete. This fills the selected area with color; on a layer with no selection, it fills the layer with color.
The Paint Bucket, if it is used as a "fill’ tool, may do unexpected things that confuse you if you click on a layer that is not empty. You should not confuse the Paint Bucket tool with a general purpose fill tool.
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