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Hello,
I have Photoshop CS6.
If I select a rectangle area and then I use Paint Bucket tool to paint it, it works perfectly.
However, I have a layer with a rectangle drawn in it. Then I control click in it so that the rectangle in the layer is selected. Then I choose paint bucket tool and try to paint that rectangle, but nothing happens. Nothing happens even in the history panel.
What may be causing this and how can I solve it?
The layer is correctly selected also.
Thanks
Jaime
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Hi. Looks by words, like you're doing everything right, but it's really hard to tell where things are going wrong, without a photo to see your setup when you're trying this.
One workaround, though - instead of using the paint bucket, try Edit>Fill>Foreground Color (I don't remember the exact wording in CS6, but it's something like that). Or the keyboard shortcut is (if you're on Windows) Ctrl+Alt+Backspace for foreground color, and Ctrl+Backspace for background color.
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Do you see any error message? Perhaps you are trying to paint Shape layer or Smart Object layer? Screenshot with entire window and Layers panel visible will be helpful.
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Hello... I have created a video to show the problem. Please see it in this link: https://youtu.be/8dRNfkjaOHM
Finally my workaround was to make a new selection over the layer and then paint it, but I am wondering why it does not work the way I was doing before.
Cheers
Jaime
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For me everything works fine, Win 10, Ps 23.1.1