Each week you will need to respond to two questions posted. Your response should be a minimum of 150 words for both questions. You should also include at least one response to your fellow students. The responses are a requirement for participation part of your grade.
Question 01 –
Describe how to load a selection and explain why it is beneficial to use this technique.
Question 02 –
How do you fill a selection with the foreground color? Background color?
Question 01:
To load a selection, go to Select > Load Selection, then click OK to save it. This technique saves time by reusing complex selections, making your work faster.
Question 02:
To fill a selection with the foreground color, go to the Edit menu, choose Fill, and select Foreground Color from the Contents drop-down menu. You can press Command+Delete to fill in the background color. This method is helpful for quickly filling selected areas with specific colors.
Question: 1
In order to load a selection in photoshop, you must first make a selection using one of the many selection tools available. Once you have your desired selection, you must then navigate to the select dropdown menu and click on save selection. After doing this a dialogue box will appear and you will have to name your selection before saving. Now, when you’re ready to use that selection, all you have to do is navigate to the select dropdown menu again and click on load selection. This ends up being very beneficial because it allows you to access previous selections with ease, allowing you to use them whenever you may need it.
Question: 2
If you want to fill a selection with a foreground color you must use the keyboard short cut (alt/opt + delete). Furthermore, if you want to instead fill a selection with a background you can use the shortcut (ctrl/cmd + delete).
Hi Michael
I think that the shortcuts for filling selections with foreground and background colors are helpful and easy to remember.
Question 01 –
Describe how to load a selection and explain why it is beneficial to use this technique.
In order to load a selection, you will first have to save a selection. You then can load a selection by choosing select on an area or the object you want, then click load selection. Under the load selection box, look for the channel menu and then choose your desired selection by the name. This is extremely beneficial to learn and use this technique because it saves you time and helps you isolate portions of an image without having to touch the whole image.
Question 02 –
How do you fill a selection with the foreground color? Background color?
To fill a selection with the foreground color, there’s shortcuts to this. You may use the keyboard shortcut “Alt + Backspace” to fill the selected area you want with foreground color. To fill a selection with background color, you could use the keyboard shortcut “Ctrl + Backspace” to fill the selected area you want with background color.
Question 01 –
Describe how to load a selection and explain why it is beneficial to use this technique.
You want to first start by making a selection in an area using your choice of selection tools. Then go to select > save selection on the menu bar on the top where a save selection box will pop up. There you can name and save your selection to a new channel or an existing channel which can be found on the channels panel. To load the selection, just go to select > load selection. There you can find the selection you want to load by name in the channel menu and press ok. This technique is beneficial because it saves time, allowing you to edit the selection again later on.
Question 02 –
How do you fill a selection with the foreground color? Background color?
To fill a selection, you want to first select the area you want to fill using the selection tool of your choice. Then press edit > fill on the menu bar on the top or shortcut (shift + F5) to bring up the fill menu which you can choose to fill the selection with either foreground color, background color, pattern, or a specified color.
You are also able to use shortcuts to fill selections as well. Alt + Backspace (PC) / Option + Delete (Mac) to fill a selection with the foreground color. Ctrl + Backspace (PC) / Command + Delete (Mac) to fill a selection with the background color.
I had no idea that you could use (shift + f5) to edit the fill color. Thanks for providing your insight!
Question 01 –
Describe how to load a selection and explain why it is beneficial to use this technique.
Question 02 –
How do you fill a selection with the foreground color? Background color?
1. Start by making a selection using any selection tool in Photoshop 2. Choose the foreground color you want to fill the selection with. You can set the foreground color by clicking on the foreground color swatch in the toolbar and selecting a color from the Color Picker. 3. With your selection active, go to the “Edit” menu at the top of the screen. 4. Select “Fill” from the dropdown menu. 5. In the Fill dialog box that appears, make sure the “Use” option is set to “Foreground Color.” 6. Click OK, and your selection will be filled with the chosen foreground color!
1. Make a selection using any selection tool in Photoshop. 2. Set the background color you want to fill the selection with. You can set the background color by clicking on the background color swatch in the toolbar and selecting a color from the Color Picker. 3. With your selection active, follow the same steps as above to go to the “Edit” menu and choose “Fill.” 4. In the Fill dialog box, ensure the “Use” option is set to “Background Color.” 5. Click OK, and your selection will be filled with the selected background color!
Hey Auribel! I really how you explained your answers step by step. I find it really easy to follow through and helpful for my overall learning and understanding. Thanks!!
Question 01 – Describe how to load a selection and explain why it is beneficial to use this technique.
In order to load a selection, you would have to select the desired area/object. Then you can click the select tab (located on the menu above) then click save selection! From here you’re able to click “load selection” to bring up the saved selection. This technique is beneficial as you’re able to look back at the selection without having to constantly reselect it, it saves a lot of time and makes your life easier!
Question 02 – How do you fill a selection with the foreground color? Background color?
In order to fill a selection with the foreground color or background color you have to select an object, or whatever you want to fill. From here you would use the command CMD + DEL / CTRL + BACKSPACE to fill with the background color! As for the background color, OPTION + DEL / ALT + BACKSPACE for the foreground color! These shortcuts are likely the easiest way to do so.
Your guide was very clear, concise, and quick! I feel like I would be able to learn this in 20 seconds flat. Thanks, Raesa!
Hello Raesa! thank you for providing a short and easier steps for both questions. Highly appreciated!
Question 01 –Describe how to load a selection and explain why it is beneficial to use this technique.
You first need to have an object selected in order to use load selection. You can use any selecting tool. You can load a selection by pressing ctrl + shift + L on Mac to change the color saturation of the color freely without messing the original picture.
Question 02 –How do you fill a selection with the foreground color? Background color?
You first need to have an area selected using any selecting tool, then choose a foreground color then go to edit and select “Fill” which will fill the selected area with the background color you have choosen
Thanks for the response Sandra!! It helped me understood everything in simple sentences.
Question 01 –
To load a selection, you would first have to select an area using any of the selection tools you have. Second, go to the Select tab on the top and choose the “Save Selection” option. This will open the Destination where the selection will be saved to. Name the selection, then click OK to save the current selection shape into Photoshop’s selection library. To clarify, the saving the selection will not save the part of the image you selected, but the shape of the marching ants themself! Now that you have a selection saved, you can unselect your marching ants, but now with the ability to pull it up again in another time. Simply, go back to the Select tab, but this time, click “Load Selection” to bring up its panel, then click OK once you have made sure that your Named Selection is selected. This will now put back the selection that you have saved before onto the save area of the image!
Question 02 –
To fill a selection with the foreground color, first make sure that you have your marching ants present on the image and have a color that you want to fill it as ready in the foreground color swatch. Then, go to the Edit tab on the top left, and click on the “Fill” option. This will bring out the Fill panel, giving you choices on how you would like to fill the selection. The “Contents” dropdown menu should have Foreground color selected so that once you click OK, it will fill your selection with the foreground color. The same process can be done for the background color, if you switch Contents to Background color! A shortcut to this would be to simply press OPTION/ALT + DELETE to fill with the foreground color, while COMMAND/CTRL + DELETE will fill with the background color.
Thank you for the shortcuts, especially since you included both IOS and WINDOWS. This is summarized very well 🙂 thumbs up!!
This is a very helpfull summary of what each tool do. Find it super helpful and easier to understand!!