Change default color of fill layer

[Ron Hipschman]

I use fill layers often as a background to check my selections and masks. Affinity Photo ≥ 1.10.4 always produces a while fill layer, which I can change to whatever I want. 99% of the time I want a black fill layer. I see no way to change the default color of fill layers. I'm apparently missing something. Can someone tell me what I'm missing? I use this feature many times a day, and it would save some time if I didn't have to do this extra step.

Thank you in advance for any advice.

[Alfred]

33 minutes ago, Ron Hipschman said:

I'm apparently missing something. Can someone tell me what I'm missing?

I don’t think you’re missing anything, sadly. I would expect to be able to synchronize the default from a selected fill layer and then save that default for future use, but it doesn’t seem to work: the current foreground colour is always used instead.

[carl123]

57 minutes ago, Ron Hipschman said:

1.10.4 always produces a while fill layer,

For me it produces whatever my "foreground" colour is set to

If I change the "foreground" colour to something else and then do...

Edit > Defaults > Save

the next time I start the app my "foreground" colour is the new colour I selected and a fill layer will use that colour (unless I change the foreground colour)

 

57 minutes ago, Ron Hipschman said:

99% of the time I want a black fill layer

Try changing your "foreground" colour to black and doing the "Save" mentioned above

[Alfred]

58 minutes ago, carl123 said:

For me it produces whatever my "foreground" colour is set to

I get the same behaviour here:

1 hour ago, Alfred said:

I would expect to be able to synchronize the default from a selected fill layer and then save that default for future use, but it doesn’t seem to work: the current foreground colour is always used instead.

It would be useful to have a separate default for new fill layers, so that if (for example) you almost always want a black fill layer you don’t have to change either the current foreground colour beforehand or the colour of the new fill layer afterwards.