Pattern Fill vs Pattern CS3

HAWK12HT

Hi all, Been making a texture and came across a tutorial by Razer on CGTUTS Hand painting realistic metal. I am confused at the stage where the guy uses pattern fill layer below his paint layer and that pattern just shows up on the above layers, without changing the blend modes.

As far as i know if you have one solid color above, anything below that layer is not gonna show until and unless you play with blend modes or mask.

My guess is that its a version issue of Photoshop cause in the video it shows as Pattern Fill , however in CS 3 I only see Pattern.

Any idea what I am missing here?

HAWK12HT

http://cg.tutsplus.com/tutorials/photoshop/how-to-hand-paint-convincing-metal-textures/

HAWK12HT

EDIT. please delete the post . I feel so bad about this lol. I have figured out what really happened.

Its just fill percentage and blend mode combinition on above layers, thats why the pattern was visible overall from underneath .

passerby

shift+f5 gives you the fill dialog, and set it to pattern.