Filling the Selected Background in Photoshop

Video Transcript

"Hi, I'm Gary for Expert Village. Now, the selected area, I'm going to make that area into it's own layer, so I'm going to go to my layers tool bar and I'm going to select the new layer tool. And we do that by clicking on the bottom icon here that looks like a piece of paper square with a little flap on it in the corner. And we see here that now I have a new layer appear called layer two and that is, basically these checker boxes here, it just means that it's a transparent layer with no color or actual image applied to it. Now that that layer is associated with the area that I selected, I'm going to go ahead and apply a color to it. I can go to my colors and styles menu and I see that there is, on the styles bar, there's actually patterns of color that I can apply to that area. So, I'm going to go ahead and click on a style and I'll choose something, as opposed to choosing a solid color, give it a little bit more life to the image. So then I click on the style that I want and I go over to my paint bucket, which is going to spill color into the image, only in the selected areas. And I put the paint bucket on to the image and click and it fills up the entire background with that particular style of color that we chose earlier. This makes it look a little bit more of a wild side to it. I guess Robert E. Lee never looked so good. So, we'll leave it like that. And that's basically how we apply our colors and our background to a black and white image by using the layers menu and applying different colors to each layer."