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December 17, 2025
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Paint Bucket

  • December 17, 2025
  • 2 replies
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What happened to the Paint Bucket in Photoshop?

It literally does not work anymore.

I have used it for years and now I cannot fill in any areas. 

2 replies

Trevor.Dennis
Community Expert
Community Expert
January 3, 2026

Alt backspace will fill an area with foreground colour, and Ctrl backspace the Background colour.  

jane-e
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 26, 2025

@MJStringer 

 

Did you try resetting the Paint tool?

 

If that doesn't work, then share a screenshot with your Layers panel and the options bar for the Paint tool. What is your Foreground color?

 

Jane