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Fill not available for selections in Photoshop CC 20.0.1

  • November 17, 2018
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I just updated my copy of Photoshop CC to 20.0.1. I edited a file from Lightroom, used the polygonal lasso tool to define a selection, then right clicked on the selection. That opens a menu of actions one can take, but the one I want, fill, is not selectable. You can't click it. It always worked before. Am I suddenly doing something wrong or is this a bug? Is there a fix? Thanks.

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    Correct answer davescm

    Check the layers panel. Are you on a pixel layer or a layer that can't be edited directly with out opening or rasterising (such as a smart object)

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    November 17, 2018

    Check the layers panel. Are you on a pixel layer or a layer that can't be edited directly with out opening or rasterising (such as a smart object)

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      November 17, 2018

      Dave,

      Thank you for your help. For some reason When the photo was brought from Lightroom into Photoshop it was put on a “locked” background layer. That hasn’t happened before. In any case, I unlocked the layer and the problem was solved. So, you got me to the answer. Thank you.

      Mike

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      November 18, 2018

      Mike

      You should still be able to fill a background layer, as opposed to a smart object.

      Out of interest - did you bring the image in from Lightroom Classic or Lightroom CC? I ask as a few folk have reported  problems with greyed menu items after opening images from Lightroom CC in Photoshop

      Dave


      Thanks for asking Dave. Actually, I spoke too soon about the fix. Here is what doesn’t work. Open a raw-file photo in Lightroom. Then select Edit in Photoshop CC 2019 from the right-click menu. That opens the photo in Photoshop. At that point you cannot open a duplicate layer or select a part of the photo with the polygonal lasso tool then open the fill menu. What does work is to open any raw-file photo directly into Photoshop through Camera Raw 11.0. You can do the fill process on that file. Leaving that file still open, you can then also open a raw-file through the Edit in Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 as described above.

      Why it works when you’ve already opened a photo directly I have no idea. All of the software are the most current versions. I still have Photoshop CC 2018 on the computer. I haven’t been able to find out how to open photos in that through Lightroom as above.

      Again thanks.

      Mike

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