Introduction to Photoshop Layers - Adobe Photoshop CC - page 147

Click on the panel tabs and drag the Swatches and Layers panels out of the docking area.
7 Select the Rectangular Marquee tool ( ) and click and drag; to constrain the marquee selection to a
square, press and hold the Shift key as you drag. Release the mouse when you have created a large,
square marquee. Exact size is not important for this step.
8 Click any red color in the Swatches panel. In this example, CMYK Red is used.
9 Choose Edit > Fill, or use the keyboard shortcut Shift+Backspace (Windows) or Shift+Delete (Mac OS)
to open the Fill dialog box.
10 In the Use drop-down menu, select Foreground Color. Leave the other settings at their default and
click OK.
Fill with your foreground color. The result.
You can press Alt+Backspace (Windows) or Option+Delete (Mac OS) to automatically fill with
your foreground color without opening the Fill dialog box. Keep in mind that either the Backspace
or Delete key can be used for this shortcut.
11 Choose Select > Deselect to turn off the selection marquee, or use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl+D (Win-
dows) or Command+D (Mac OS).
12 Choose File > Save.
Naming your layer
You will find that as you increase your use of layers, your Photoshop image can become quite complicated
and confusing. Layers are limited only by the amount of memory you have in your computer, so you could