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I'm operating in Windows on CC2019.

I'm writing an action in which I include a layer fill. I want it so that when I run the action it fills the layer with the foreground colour I have selected at the time of the running the action each time I run it.

But whenever I record the action, it embeds the colour value of the foreground colour (say 100% cyan) at the time of recording it. So everytime I run it subsequently it fills with 100% cyan no matter what foreground colour is selected.

I know I can put a modal control in there so you can select the colour manually, but running action 100s of times I'd rather avoid that happening.

Does anyone have a way around this? I'm open to using JavaScript but I wouldn't have the skill to write it myself.

Thanks,

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  • Hi. Welcome to GDSE. I can't replicate this problem in Photoshop. If I record an action to fill with the foreground colour using Edit > Fill > and choose "Foreground colour", stop the recording, then I change the foreground colour, then run the action, it uses the currently selected foreground colour.
    – Billy Kerr
    Commented Aug 5, 2019 at 10:30
  • Thanks Billy. It was the layer fill I was trying to make work not the fill (why they named two things the same is beyond me). But Danielillo has solved the issue below anyway :)
    – Ian
    Commented Aug 6, 2019 at 12:09

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After the include a layer fill in the action, add this command with the following shortcut:

  • Alt + Delete (Fill with the foreground color)

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