Photoshop · Fill with background color
Paint
Windows · Linux
Ctrl+BackspaceMac
Cmd+DeleteFills with the background colour. It is one finger away from the foreground fill, which is why the colour that lands is so often not the one you pictured.
- Group
- Paint
- Keys held
- 2
Bracket keys resize the brush ([ and ]) on every layout, but with a non-Latin input method active some other shortcuts stop responding.
Reading the key names
- Keys joined by + are pressed together: Ctrl+Shift+P means hold Ctrl and Shift, then P.
- On a Mac, Cmd is ⌘, Option is ⌥ (labelled Alt on some keyboards), Control is ⌃ and Shift is ⇧.
- Windows Ctrl usually becomes Cmd on a Mac, but not always — this reference lists both combinations separately.
- With a Korean, Japanese or Chinese input method active, shortcuts built on letter keys may not fire. Switch to Latin input and try again.
- When a combination does nothing, another program has often claimed it as a global shortcut first.
Common questions
Q. What is the shortcut for Fill with background color in Photoshop?
Fills with the background colour. It is one finger away from the foreground fill, which is why the colour that lands is so often not the one you pictured. It is Ctrl+Backspace on Windows and Cmd+Delete on a Mac.
Q. Is it the same on Windows and Mac?
No — Ctrl+Backspace on Windows, Cmd+Delete on a Mac.
Q. How many keys is that?
2 pressed together. The combination sits under Paint in Photoshop.