Problem with filling selection with color

Hi tangomike,

I checked your post. Your image is not displaying because there is a problem with the uploading. Let's try this.

1. Save the image (screenshot) to your computer.
2. Go into the Edit mode for your post.
3. Click on the Add image to post via imgbb.com button.
4. In the dialog box that pops-up, click on the browse from your computer link.
5. Navigate to where you saved your image.
6. Click on the image to open it.
7. In the dialog box that pops-up, click on the Upload button.
8. Click on the Preview button in your post. (Your image should display properly.)

From the image you uploaded it looks like you have simplified each of the layers containing a letter, so that they are no longer text layers.  I would think the actions you described should work in that case.

I do this the way Tom has suggested - both his method of selection and his method of filling the selection with color.

Sometimes PSE just doesn't want to behave. Save your project as a psd and close down PSE. Reopen and start working on the rest of your project. Hopefully that will work.

Thanks Sepiana. That's not the problem, but I didn't use "Fill layer." As shown in this new image, I wanted to fill the letter. (correction: Just noticed that the window is labeled "Fill Layer.") I also made sure I didn't simplify the layers, because I hadn't done that in the original attempts. Thanks also to cats4jan for the suggestion about shutting down PSE and reopening it. I had already tried that. I also tried Tom's suggestion about the way he suggested to select and fill the selection.

Once again, with the marching ants around the letter, I've been unable to change the color of any letters to white, and I'm still much confused.

Sepiana,

Thanks for the additional information. My apologies for not replying sooner. At this point, it may be helpful to expand my initial post to clarify my issues with this project.

I'm assisting the owner of the company represented by the logo based on my offer to enhance it by adding depth through bevel. My interest is to enable printing on a shirt that accepts a direct to film high quality process. They provided a style guide, and I wanted to comply with the branding, including colors, typography, and design. The only examples I had were .png images, and I came up with a process that allowed me to duplicate the typography without having to search for the three fonts.

The workflow involved using the magic wand to select each letter, copy and paste it in a separate layer, and use a fill layer to block out the original text. This worked fine for multiple trials until I ran into the problem illustrated in my original post.

I would like to continue this with more detail as I repeat the process with another version of the logo, but I'm unable to devote the time until later today.

Thanks again to all for the assistance you have provided so far.

tangomike,

No need to apologize. This is a very interesting project and I understand you want to get it right.

I’m baffled. I have no problems using the Magic Wand tool (or the Paint Bucket tool as suggested by Tom).

You may want to start your project again. The moment you encounter the problem in your workflow, stop, and take a screenshot. Make you sure you capture the layer stack. The layer stack could be the key to solve this mystery.