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Angelique & Friends
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January 31, 2020
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Can't get arrow colors in Photoshop CC

  • January 31, 2020
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I have Photoshop CC on a Mac with Catalina 10.15.2. I'm using the custom shape tool to draw arrows. I can't get a color on the arrows. Every tutorial I see shows the ability to use color overlay to add a color. (Before CC, I also used to be able to set the color before I drew the arrow.) What could be going wrong?

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I discovered that I had a very large grey inner stroke set in the shape tool, and turning that off removed the grey. 

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JJMack
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JJMackCommunity Expert
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January 31, 2020

Color Overlay would be a layer style effect.  A shape can be filled and a shape can be stroked.  They are options. Nether Fill or Stroke is required. A fill can be a solid color, a pattern, or gradient, A stroke can be colored and position relative the shape path: Outside, Centered or inside.  You should have no problem coloring your shape.  To use a layer style color overlay there need to be pixel content to overlay.

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Angelique & FriendsAuthorCorrect answer
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January 31, 2020

I discovered that I had a very large grey inner stroke set in the shape tool, and turning that off removed the grey. 

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    Anonymous
    January 31, 2020

    Hi

    Color overlay is working fine for me with Photoshop 21.0.3

    You could also set the fill color in the options bar for the shape

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