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Anonymous

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Photoshop colouring help, please.

Forum|Forum|8 years ago
April 26, 2017
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How do I colour in photoshop? Every time I use the bucket tool or just use the magic wand to select the areas I want to colour and then just colour in with the brush. I end up getting these white dots that aren't coloured and when I try to colour those in (Even if I'm on the colour layer and not the lineart layer I end up colouring outside and over the lines) How do I completely colour something in without these dots happening? Also, I have the mode on RGB and not anything else like indexed colour. Thank you!

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D Fosse

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The paintbucket has to be the clumsiest and most heavy-handed tool in the whole application. It's a bit like clock repair wearing boxing gloves. You should really just avoid it.

The magic wand is a distant number two.

Follow Barbara's advice and make your selection first, using all the sophisticated tools available for that (and there are many more than those mentioned) - then fill with the desired color once you're satisfied with the selection. The trick is to build the selection gradually.

runninghead_design

Inspiring

Barbara's supplied some good advice there.

The Paint Bucket tool is more complex and useful than it appears but it's far from the worst problem in Photoshop.

The white dots you refer to sounds like pixel "haloes", so learn about "antialiasing" and play with the settings.

I keep my Paint Bucket Tool ramped up at 255 (the maximum) and I've never had to use any other setting for it.

c.pfaffenbichler

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barbara_a7746676

Community Expert

It sounds like the white dots are due to some pixels not be selected.

The bucket tool has a tolerance setting. The higher the tolerance setting the more pixels will be colored in.

Similarly, with the Magic Wand there is a tolerance setting -- the higher the tolerance the more pixels will be selected.

When selecting with the Magic Wand you can click to start your selection as you normally would. Then instead of changing the tolerance, click the Add button and continue to add to your selection until all of the pixels are selected.

Once you have a good selection, instead of using the bucket tool, try the keyboard shortcuts: Ctrl Backspace to fill with the background color; Alt Backspace to fill with the foreground color. If using a Mac, use Command instead of Ctrl and Option instead of Alt.

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Anonymous

I selected with the magic wand tool and just coloured something real quick. You can see the magic tool didn't select the entire area and there's white spots that weren't selected and coloured in purple like the rest of the area.

runninghead_design

Inspiring

OK... I'll do it myself and send you a screen grab of the process.

Hang on...

JJMack

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