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3 Choose Edit > Fill to fill the selection or layer.
In the Fill dialog box, choose one of the
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following options from the Use pop-up menu:
Foreground Color, Background Color, Black,
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50% Gray, or White to fill the selection with the
specified color.
Pattern to fill the selection with a pattern. Click
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the Custom Pattern pop-up menu, and then
select a pattern from the pop-up palette. You
can create or load additional patterns, see
"Creating and editing patterns" on page 145.
5 Specify the blending mode and opacity for the
paint. (See "Setting options for painting and
editing tools" on page 135.)
6 To fill only areas opaque pixels on a layer,
choose Preserve Transparency.
7 Click OK to fill the selection.
To fill the area surrounding the work canvas:
In the toolbox, set the foreground color you
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want to use. (See "Selecting foreground and
background colors" on page 127.)
2 Drag the image window corners away from
your image so that the image window dimensions
are greater than your image dimensions.
3 Select the paint bucket tool
In the options bar, set Fill to Foreground.
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Hold down Shift, and click in the area
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surrounding your image.
Note that these steps affect all images in
Photoshop Elements.
Filling the area surrounding the work canvas with color
Creating and editing patterns
In addition to using the libraries of patterns
provided with Photoshop Elements, you can
create your own custom patterns. Once you've
created patterns, you can save them in a library,
and then load and manage libraries of patterns
using the Preset Manager. This allows you to easily
use multiple patterns in an image. You can also use
the pattern stamp tool to paint with a pattern.
(See "Using the pattern stamp tool" on page 135).
To add a custom pattern to the pattern picker:
. 1 To create a pattern from part of the image, make
a rectangular selection with Feather set to 0 px. Or,
to create a pattern from the entire image, deselect
everything. (Note that large patterns may become
hard to manage.)
Choose Edit > Define Pattern.
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