ABSTRACT
Affect which shape layer? You’ve probably noticed by now that before you create a shape layer, I instruct you to set the foreground color in the toolbar first, specifying a fill color for your new layer before you create it. However, you’ve probably also noticed that there is a color swatch in the tool options bar that allows you to specify the fill color of a shape layer too. Before you choose a different color from the swatch in the tool options bar, you need to pay attention to a small chain-link button to the left of it. When enabled, this option affects the properties of the current layer, meaning the layer you already created. So when this option is enabled, changing the color in the tool options bar will affect your already existing layer. If you disable this option, your current shape layer will remain unaffected when you choose a new color. But any new shape layer you create will use the new color selected in the tool options bar.
