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What is the difference between a fill layer and a pixel layer that contains a flat color? (Beside the capacity to paint different colors into the pixel layer)
Logic would dictate that the fill layer would be stored in such a way that there are no pixels per se, but more a vector definition of the fill which could then be modified only with a layer mask, or by altering overall opacity/blending mode.
Yet when I save a PSD (v7.0.1) with a single pixel layer filled with a flat color, and then replicate the same thing using a fill layer, I get the exact same file size in the finder window.
I would expect the fill layer file to be smaller.
Does the native RLE compression coincidently create the same exact file size of the pixel layer file compared to the fill layer file?
Logic would dictate that the fill layer would be stored in such a way that there are no pixels per se, but more a vector definition of the fill which could then be modified only with a layer mask, or by altering overall opacity/blending mode.
Yet when I save a PSD (v7.0.1) with a single pixel layer filled with a flat color, and then replicate the same thing using a fill layer, I get the exact same file size in the finder window.
I would expect the fill layer file to be smaller.
Does the native RLE compression coincidently create the same exact file size of the pixel layer file compared to the fill layer file?
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