| Foreground and Background
colors have multiple meanings, but for our purposes, it's the colors you use with each
tool. When you look at your Color Box, you'll see two small boxes over the top of the
rainbow of choices and below it. These indicate what your Foreground and Background colors
are. The Foreground color is always the one on the left or top and is associated with the
LEFT click of your mouse button. The Background color is always on the right or bottom and
is associated with the RIGHT click of your mouse button. So - when you are asked to flood
with the foreground color, you check to make sure the LEFT box is the right color and you
LEFT click to fill the space. When you are asked to flood with the background color, you
check to make sure the RIGHT box is the right color and you RIGHT click to fill the space.
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If you want no colour on the inside of the rectangle, you can null the background by holding your mouse over the background swatch and clicking on the circle with the line through it, and your shape will end up only with a border around it and transparent in the middle. |
Alternatively, if you don't want a border around your shape at
all, then you null the foreground colour and you end up with a shape without a border.
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| I hope this answers your
questions. |
It really doesn't
matter what you use the foreground or background colours on. If you want to use the colour
you have set for the foreground, use the left click button with the floodfill tool. If you
want to use the background colour to fill something, use the right click button. If
you are using a shape in your image - say a rectangle, you have the border around the
rectangle set to the foreground colour and the inside of the rectangle will be filled with
the background colour.
