Photoshop - CS3 - Quickie Advice!

[Pheebs]

Heylo!

Picky has fixed our poota (yaaaaaaaay!) and it now works smoothly as a babys bum!

Thing is, we've reinstalled CS3 on it and my original settings aren't obviously there.

Basically, when I draw, I first fill in the background with a blue, then add a layer, which I draw on. I then progressively add more and more layers (to draw the hair and objects etc) until I am happy with the finished picture.

Before flattening the layers though, I would select the background layer (the first one) and using Fill, colour in all the separate areas the colours I wanted (ie face, presents, hair etc... so I would click inside the face shape - which would be made up of several layers - and it would just fill in uthat specific area).

The thing is... now, when I select background... or any layer at that... and then fill, it fills the whole blooming screen - not between the lines I've drawn.

I've turned on and off the alias, highered and lowered the tolerence, selected all layers... everything visible... yet it still fills the whole screen.

Boo!

Anyone know what settings I need to change? I really don't want to resort to flattening all the layers before filling them, nor using magic wand or just painting them by hand! THey all have massive disadvantages - the way I was doing it was peeeeeeerfect!

Thanks for your help ppl

[Pheebs]

AH HA!

It's working!

I don't know how I got it working but it's working!

I had to open up an old picture and try filling in on it... and suddenly it worked (I didn't change any settings or nowt!) When I opened up a new one it did it too!

Weird.

HOORah!

Sorry people, this thread can be deleted if needs be! I'm sorted! Wooo yay!