GIMP Version: 2.8.10
Operating System: Mac OS Mavericks
GIMP Experience: Beginner Level

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Well gang, here we ( eh hem, I ) are again

So The small circle icon is here again and I can't:
1. Get it go away
2. Use the paint bucket to color a font (keep ,in mind i'm using .psd files...)
3. figure out wt heck is going on...

Pics attached/profanity censored in my images.
Tried to apply the paint bucket to 2 separate layers. One with transparency and one with white background

help...

In the top pic, the hole isn the R is selected, so the bucket is outside the selection and won't fill. Not sure about the second picture but you should have "fill whole selection" chosen and uncheck fill transparent areas. That might help.

Hi,
I actually toggled between the 2 options and it didn't have any effect on my ability to use the bucket tool nor remove the dread small circle icon..

First go to Select>None then...
Right click the text layer and select alpha to selection then fill the text.
Also try Edit>Fill with FG color instead of bucket tool for whole layers.

Ahhhh.. ok-ok-ok

I see what I gotta do going forward with respect to using the paint bucket.
It worked both ways (and I see the diffference and use for each example.

Thanks Rod!

Good to hear you got it working again.

Seriously,
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Will do....

Even an easier way to fill your selection is to just grab the color from , and pull it into your selection, if you want white, pull the white in or whatever color you want. That way you don't have to bother with the bucket.

Hmmm... thanks molly I'll try that!

I have actually had a lot of bog downs trying this way of fill. GIMP-2.6 works excellent for filling selections or a whole layer/bg this way. But trying this in GIMP-2.8 really caused my machine to go very slow. No idea why.

Works perfect for me with 64-bit... Are you using 32?

Yes but i never had this problem with GIMP-2.6 on 32 bit. I don't understand why i would have it now with GIMP-2.8 builds. Unless of course GIMP-2.8 32 bit build requires more RAM to run?