black & white are reversed after flood tool

[Gayle Brantuk]

I started with a tif image that's a black & white drawing and used the fill tool to fill in some black areas that were supposed to be solid, but weren't. I also did a lot of cutting to get rid of specks on the image. It looked fine when I closed and saved it, but when I went to convert it to a PDF, all my tif's have a black background and white lettering--should be just the opposite. I have gone into the images and they all look that way (apart from the PDF). I'm guessing this is a layer issue, but I'm new to this program and can't figure out what I did wrong and how to fix it. I really don't want to start over. So, to restate, everything that should be black is white and all that should be white is black. Appreciate any help...

[photodrawken]

If you used a "Printer" to "convert it to PDF", check that the "Negative" option is not selected:

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[Gayle Brantuk]

No, I didn't select negative for the PDF creation. When I saved each of the images, they looked fine but now when I open them up they are reversed. I ended up rescanning them and starting over but I still don't know what I did wrong. I wanted to fill in some areas that should have been solid black, but were splotchy. I clicked on the Flood Fill tool and then on the layer panel (which was open) on the right, I selected the black color and proceeded to fill in all the splotchy area. Looked fine when I was done, but on re-opening like I said, all the colors are reversed. I think I'm missing something about the layers. Thanks...

Gayle