Maybe its me but I cant change color in previously colored rectangle

[delpi767]

It is entirely possible that my thinking has gone wrong, but I am unable (sometimes) to change the color of a previously colored rectangle.  Notice below that have the rectangle behind the word Margaritaville selected and both the fill and stroke color are pink/red.  However, the background of the rectangle remains blue.  Has my thinking gone awry or is there a problem here?

Thanks

[walt.farrell]

You may have the Rectangle Tool selected, but the item you have selected in the Layers panel is a Pixel layer, not a Rectangle. You can't change its color the way you're trying to. You would need to use a paint brush, or the Flood Fill Tool, etc. Or, perhaps, delete that layer and create the Rectangle you seem to want, and color it

[delpi767]

Thanks Walt,

You are exactly correct.  Here is what was happening.  I was trying to add noise using the filters menu item which immediately changed the object to a pixel layer.

Using the Add Noise from live filters solves the problem.

 

[GarryP]

Pretty much all of the Filters, as far as I know – not the Live Filters, but the ones you get via the Filter menu – are ‘destructive’ and will convert whatever you use them on to Pixel layers.

I think it’s worth noting that, depending on the effect you were trying to achieve, as an alternative to using a filter, you could have added the noise via the Noise functionality in the Colour Panel rather than a filter – click on the Opacity icon to toggle to and back from the Noise setting (see attached video).