User guide

136 Painting, Drawing, and Text
To use the Fill command:
• Choose Fill from the Edit menu. The Fill dialog appears.
• For a flood fill, set the Type to Color.
• Choose whether the fill color is to be the current Foreground color,
Background color or a Custom color.
• Specify the blend mode and opacity of the fill.
If you check Preserve Transparency, transparent areas will resist the
flood color; otherwise, everything in the selection or layer will be
equally washed with the fill.
• For a Pattern fill, set the Type to Pattern.
The blend options are the same, but in this mode instead of choosing a
color you can fill a region with any pattern stored in the Patterns
dialog. Click the pattern sample to bring up the gallery of pattern
thumbnails (see Using patterns on p. 134 for more information).