While I expect that many of you already know the shortcuts to fill with the Foreground and background colors, did you also know that your can fill with History, fill non-transparent areas, and a combination of both?
This video walks though four quick ways to use Photoshop’s fill command:
Fill with the Foreground/Background Color
- Option + Delete (Mac) | Alt + Backspace (Win) fills with the foreground color.
- Command + Delete (Mac) | Control + Backspace (Win) fills with the background color.
- Note: these shortcuts work with several types of layers including Type and Shape layers.
The Fill Dialog Box
- Shift + Delete (Mac) | Shift + Backspace (Win) displays the fill dialog.
Fill with History
- Option + Command + Delete (Mac) | Alt + Control + Backspace (Win) fills with the currently selected history state. (This can be really useful when retouching and you need to “revert” only a portion of an image.)
Fill Content Only
- Option + Shift + Delete (Mac) | Alt +Shift +Backspace (Win) will fill with the foreground color and temporarily turn on the Lock Transparency option (so that only those pixels that have information in them are filled).
Fill Content with History
- Option + Command + Shift + Delete (Mac) | Alt + Control + Shift +Backspace (Win) will fill with the currently selected history state and preserve transparency (so that only those pixels that have information in them are filled).
