Normally to do a fill on photoshop (CS6 Mac version) I just select an area & hit backspace/delete & the fill option menu comes up. That still works on older photos but now on newer photos, whether its a desktop screenshot, image from the net, or camera hitting backspace on an area now actually deletes that portion of the image revealing the checkerboard background. Why is this happening?
If your layer is a background layer - (bottom layer, labelled background, with the lock symbol) the Fill dialogue will come up
If it is a normal pixel layer (no lock symbol) the pixels will be deleted and the selection will become transparent
If you wish to do so, you can make Layer 0 into a background layer by going to Layer - New - Background from Layer
Alternatively you can just Shift -F5 to bring up the fill dialogue
Dave
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