Fill tool

This tool allows you to apply color by clicking on an image. The color you click on will be taken as the standard, and all adjacent pixels within a certain tolerance, using either the default or one set by you, will be filled in with the Fill color. The tolerance is a measure of the brightness of pixels and stretches out in either direction from the selected color. The Fill color itself is the currently selected foreground color.

Click on Fill image\ppFill.gif on the Tools bar.

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  1. In the "Fill Options" dialog set the following options:

  2. Select a mode in the Mode box (see Brush modes). The default is Normal.

  3. Set the opacity in the Opacity box: 0 is total transparency, that is the underlying color shows through totally; 100 is total solidity, that is the fill color covers the underlying color totally.

  4. The tolerance is set in the Threshold box: 0 causes only adjacent pixels with exactly the same color (strictly speaking, brightness) to be filled; 255 causes all pixels in the image to be filled.

  5. Leave Color Fill checked to apply a color fill.

  6. Pattern Fill allows you to use a pre-saved pattern instead of the selected foreground color. (To create a pattern you first need to use one of the selection tools to select the area containing the pattern you want fill with. After this, select Make Pattern from the Select menu. The selected pattern will then appear in the Pattern box and will also be available for future use.)

  7. Once you have chosen a suitable color or pattern and set the threshold, opacity and mode, just place the Bucket pointer over the area to be filled and click once. The fill will go ahead according to the settings you chose.

See:

Paint Tools

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