Keyboard shortcut for filling layer with color are opposite on my PS CS6 OSX install, Help?

[chilecayenne]

Hello all,

I'm a bit of a noob, and following a tutorial….and found something strange and wonder if you might help me figure what's happening.

I have Photoshop Extended CS6 on a macbook pro (late 2011).

I'm running OSX v 10.7.5

I'm following along and the instructor added a new layer. I did this.

He then filled the layer with white which is his background color (he has black foreground, white background). I have the same fore/background colors.

Now, I thought on mac that to fill with foreground color you hit Apple+Delete  and to fill with background you hit Option+Delete

It is doing the exact OPPOSITE for me. I hit Apple+Delete (or even backspace)  and it fills with my background color which is white

If I hit Option+Delete (or backspace) it fills with my foreground color.

I've tried looking in the Edit Keyboard shortcuts area…but I don't see these settings anywhere.

I do have an external keyboard  hooked to my mac. It is a 3rd party one, but seems to work in ever other way normally.

Keyboard here is:  http://pckeyboard.com/page/UKBD/UB40P4A

Any suggestions why my keyboard shortcut for filling a layer with color might be reversed?

Thanks in advance,

CC

[Earth Oliver]

option-delete is, and always has been, fill with foreground.

a 1 second google search would have informed you of this.

[chilecayenne]

eartho wrote:

option-delete is, and always has been, fill with foreground.

a 1 second google search would have informed you of this.

Thanks for the reply.

I did do a Google and I got this:

http://blog.coghillcartooning.com/84/tip-keyboard-shortcut-to-fill-a-photoshop-layer-or-selection-wi...

And from that I got the option-delete was background, and apple-delete was foreground.

Hence my confusion...

Thanks for the reply, I guess I should check 2-3 sites each time I google for keyboard shortcuts for PS.

CC

[Jeff Arola · Accepted solution]

It sounds like it's working as intended

photoshop keyboard shortcuts for paintng:

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/default-keyboard-shortcuts.html#keys_for_painting