Colour fill keyboard shortcut

[Raymondo]

I have made a post about this a short while ago but got no real answer. The short keyboard function "Shift F5" to colour fill does not work on my iMac running OS X sierra. All it does is slides the window off screen and back on again but does not seem to have anything to do with colour fill. This wouldn't be a windows short keyboard function would it? Feedback please on this issue.

[Chris B]

Hey Raymondo,

Where have you seen this shortcut? I've tested it and it doesn't work for me. I could map it to another action without it warning me there was a conflict. I think it might just be for Windows. 

[Raymondo]

Hi Chris, under edit, fill, you see short keyboard key Shift F5. If this is a Windows short keyboard function what's it doing in the mac version. Something is not right here is it. This needs investigating. In Photoshop the short key is shift/delete to fill colour. Could do with same in AP. Let me know what's going on please.

[Chris B]

Ah sorry I was looking in Designer and made my own shortcut in Preferences. 

This is a feature of Affinity Photo that should apply a fill to a pixel layer. Are you getting the Fill dialog appear when you click it?

 

Custom lets you pick the fill. Primary by default will be white (it goes from the Colour Panel) and Secondary would be black be default. If you change the colours on the Colour Panel first, they will be reflected when picking either Primary or Secondary.

 

I've just tried it on El Capitan and Sierra and it is working for me. I was caught out initially because Primary was white so it looked like it wasn't applying anything. 

[R C-R]

Shift + F5 works for me to bring up the Fill dialog (versions as below in my sig). It may make a difference that I am using a full sized Apple Aluminum keyboard -- I think I saw somewhere that function key stuff might work slightly differently with Apple keyboards with fewer keys.

 

Chris, I figured out the custom, primary, & secondary fill color choices OK, but not the Inpainting & History one. There does not seem to be anything in Help about that, so could you explain how they work?

 

BTW, in the Fill dialog the "Secondary Color" text is truncated to "Secondary Colo" without the final "r." (I am using the U.S. English system language choice.) Not a big deal but perhaps something that could be fixed in a later release.

[Madame]

I have (a long time ago, can't really remember how) altered the FN keys, so that I have to press the fn key in order for them to work.

 

So the shortcut would be "fn+f5+shift". 

[Raymondo]

Hi Chris, yeah I get the fill dialog up ok, that's fine but I was assuming, maybe wrongly that the short key tag when pressed together would fill a selected area with the current defined colour as does Photoshop when you press Shift/delete. Surely a keyboard short cut should be applied that works on all standard professional design keyboards. I have an iMac keyboard and the short key does not work on that and I would have thought it should as a good many professionals will be using an iMac. This is software that's supposed to be aimed at professionals. This is a minor issue which seems to have become a tad complicated, all I want to do is have a quick way to fill a selection as I said as in Photoshop, is that possible in AP?

[Chris B]

Ah okay, I've just seen what you mean in PS. I guess it is handy for when you have selections and I don't think we have that currently so you would benefit from putting it in the Feature Request section. 

@R C-R if you define an area with a selection brush and use the Inpainting tool, it will attempt to do the same job as if you were doing it manually but restricted to the defined area. From my experience of using it, History just undoes whatever you did in this dialog.