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SilverPhoenix
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March 21, 2020
Question

Solid fill leaves transparency

  • March 21, 2020
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Hi,

I made a selection based on a couple images, some manual edits, etc. I want to fill the entire selection with a solid black, but when trying to do so the result contains half-transparent areas. The same happens when I take an entire solid black layer and delete the inverse selection. The remains look as the image in the attachment. As you can see everything inside the selection is supposed to be solid black, but isn't.

The layer mode is set to normal with 100% opacity, there are no layers or masks on top of this one causing interference.

I assume some setting in my selection is causing this, but I have no idea where to start looking. Any help is much appreciated!

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Bojan Živković11378569
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Bojan Živković11378569Community Expert
Community Expert
March 21, 2020

Do you have semi-transparent pixels on image which you are using to create selection? Another thing to check is Feather option in the Options bar for active selection tool like Lasso Tool.

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    SilverPhoenixAuthor
    Participant
    March 22, 2020

    Thanks for the reply!

    Yes the original is a low quality image which does have semi-transparent pixels (see image below). The settings of those are probably still present in the selection itself? I tried cleaning it up as much as I could and modified the selection of the remainders manually. The goal is to have a cleaned up version in solid black.

    Feather for all selection tools is set to 0px.

    I tried editing the Layer Mask as c_pfaffenbichler suggested, but it doesn't seem to have any effect.

     

    c.pfaffenbichler
    Community Expert
    c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    March 22, 2020

    Please post meaningful screenshots including the pertinet Panels (Layers, Channels, …). 

    c.pfaffenbichler
    Community Expert
    c.pfaffenbichlerCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    March 21, 2020

    alt-click the Layer Mask icon in the Layers Panel (thus hiding the composite Channel and revealing/selecting the Mask Channel) and correct the Layer Mask however you see fit. 

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