Photoshop question - Diff between fill % and opacity %?

[screaming]

Adobe Photoshop CS docs say:

In addition to setting opacity for a layer, which affects any layer styles and blending modes applied to the layer, you can specify a fill opacity for layers. Fill opacity affects pixels painted in a layer or shapes drawn on a layer without affecting the opacity of any layer effects that have been applied to the layer.

  Huh?  Can someone give me an instance when I would want one over the other?  Up until now I've just been arbitrarily playing with the settings, but I really want to know

-Steve

[Pixelhugger]

Lets say you create some type. Then you give it a stroke (outline) as a layer effect. Now you want the fill of the type to be semi transparent but the outline to stay completely opaque.. or vise versa. That would be the idea. 

[Pixelhugger]

Like so...


As with any graphics app its one of those functions which at face value may not seem like much (as demonstrated below;)) but in more complex situations comes in handy way more often than you'd think.

[Nannuu]

Pixel, They way your wrote that made me think of Fire Marshal Bill from In Living Colour.  Too funny.  Thanks, though, I never knew that.  I've been trying to learn PS and I am terrible at it 

[Pixelhugger]

hehe 

[Witchboard]

I've been trying to learn PS and I am terrible at it

[screaming]

Like so...

As with any graphics app its one of those functions which at face value may not seem like much (as demonstrated below;)) but in more complex situations comes in handy way more often than you'd think.

  oooohhhhh well that makes sense!  Thanks!

-Steve