change background

I just made a fire text on a black background. I created a new layer for the text and then customized. I don't want a black background I want white. I would just start over on a white background but the effects don't look as good. Can someone tell me how to change the background color or somehow remove the fire text from the black background and put it on white.

Thanks,
John

well if the text is on a seperate layer from the background, can't you just change the black background layer to white.

That's why i'm in the basic question are for new users. How do I change the background layer?

A few handy shortcut keys:

cntrl-d -- switched fore and back colors back to defaults
cntrl-x -- alternates between colors
alt- backarrow -- fills the "current" layer with the foreground color
cntl-backarrow (or shift?) -- ditto - but for background color

so select the background layer by clicking on it in the "layer pallet" and if you have your chosen color as the foreground color then hit alt-backarrow to fill it.

Or you can select the paintbucket tool and fill with that.

The background layer is by default always "locked". You can duplicate it by dragging that layer onto the "new layer" icon on the layer pallet and delete the old layer. Then there is a little padlock icon that is selected on "locked" layers, de select it to edit it.

[QUOTE=Marble]A few handy shortcut keys:

cntrl-d -- switched fore and back colors back to defaults
cntrl-x -- alternates between colors
alt- backarrow -- fills the "current" layer with the foreground color
cntl-backarrow (or shift?) -- ditto - but for background color[/QUOTE]

And by this he means X for switch Foreground/Background colors, D for default Black/White Foreground/Background colors.

CTRL+D would do deselect current selection and CTRL+X would do cut selection. ;)

Oops! Yes - without the control =P

thanks guys, very helpful. Turned out great