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robaho / seashore

easy to use mac osx image editing application for the rest of us
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Background colour #149

Closed markbullen54 closed 3 years ago

markbullen54 commented 3 years ago

I have just started using Seashore and have a simple question: how do I change the colour of a background layer? I created the layer, I selected the foreground/background tool to bring up the color picker, I selected a color, then selected the bucket tool to flood the layer but nothing happens. Must be missing something obvious (or not so obvious).

Thanks.

robaho commented 3 years ago

Did you pick the foreground color? When you are editing a layer - you are normally changing a layers "foreground". The only time "background" is used is when you are erasing within a layer. So 'fill' uses the 'foreground' color to fill.

Also, did you read the guide? It is available under the Help menu.

markbullen54 commented 3 years ago

Ok, that explains it. I assumed it was the background colour because the layer is in the background. And, yes I did read the guide. Thanks again.

robaho commented 3 years ago

“background” is relative when using “layers”. As you can have many layers and reorder them.

TBH “background” is probably a bad name - it should be called “erase color” so I agree it can be confusing.