Fill

The Fill effect is used to fill a mask with a specified color. The Fill Mask menu displays the available masks. If you want to add both a stroke and a fill to a closed path, the order in which you apply the stroke and fill determines the visible width of the stroke. If the fill is applied before the stroke, the full stroke brush size is visible. If the stroke is applied before the fill, the fill appears on top of the stroke, obscuring the half of the stroke that falls inside the path. See Scribble.


An inverted mask (left) is filled with black (center); a mask of a spaceship is filled with black and feathered (right).

The Fill effect includes an All Masks option that fills all the layer's closed mask paths with the chosen color. Activating this option also fills the mask path of a mask that has None chosen as its mode. To fill each layer mask, make sure that All Masks is selected in the Effect Controls window.