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P: "Paint bucket tool" doesn't retain selected color when filling...

Explorer ,
May 04, 2013 May 04, 2013

BUG: CS6: "Paint bucket tool" doesn't retain selected color when filling.

For example, I select this color from the swatches palette...

R 236
G 0
B 140

But when I use the "paint bucket tool" to fill the color into the document, the color in the document is slightly different...

R 237
G 0
B 140

This is easily noticeable when viewing the "info" palette.

I've tried other colors, too.

This happens even if I turn off color management for the document.

No special blending mode is used for tool or layers. I've even reset tools to default settings.

This problem is particular to the "paint bucket tool", and doesn't happen when using the brush and pencil tools.

Can this be fixed?

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Adobe Employee , Oct 19, 2017 Oct 19, 2017
This issue should be fixed in the latest release of Photoshop CC: https://blogs.adobe.com/photoshop/2017/10/get-the-goods-announcing-updates-to-photoshop-cc-dimension...
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LEGEND ,
May 05, 2013 May 05, 2013
It's not only the Paint Bucket Tool. The Fill command is affected too.
I guess you're picking a CMYK-defined swatch and Photoshop is using a different conversion to RGB when filling than when brushing.

To get the RGB that you expect when filling, open the Color Picker, click in an R,G or B field and increment then decrement (or vice versa) the value: a forward then backward roll of the mouse wheel is quick and easy. The colour then will be RGB-defined instead of CMYK-defined and both filling and brushing will use that RGB value.
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LEGEND ,
May 05, 2013 May 05, 2013
There could also be a small rounding error somewhere along the way - but it's not easy to tell if it is in the fill or the info palette readout.
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Explorer ,
May 05, 2013 May 05, 2013
it's a bug with the fill--not the info palette. tested with the eyedropper tool.
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Explorer ,
Jul 25, 2013 Jul 25, 2013
any fix for this yet?
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Explorer ,
Nov 08, 2013 Nov 08, 2013
bug still happens even after i update PS to 13.0.1.3 [Nov 7, 2013]. can this be fixed?
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Explorer ,
Nov 08, 2013 Nov 08, 2013
it's a bug with the fill--not the info palette. tested with the eyedropper tool.
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Explorer ,
Sep 23, 2014 Sep 23, 2014
any fix for this yet?
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Explorer ,
Nov 07, 2015 Nov 07, 2015
Still no fix (in PS CC 2015) after 3 years?
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Explorer ,
Nov 24, 2016 Nov 24, 2016
Still broken in CC 2017.
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New Here ,
Dec 21, 2016 Dec 21, 2016
Try going to CMYK mode and then back to RGB mode.
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Explorer ,
Dec 23, 2016 Dec 23, 2016

I don't get why Adobe has been ignoring this confirmed bug for years.  How hard is this to fix?

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LEGEND ,
Jun 21, 2017 Jun 21, 2017
Check the opacity of the paint-tool. This happened to me once and when I checked, the opacity was at 60% and not 100%

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Explorer ,
Jun 21, 2017 Jun 21, 2017

This bug is unrelated to that opacity setting.

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Adobe Employee ,
Oct 19, 2017 Oct 19, 2017
This issue should be fixed in the latest release of Photoshop CC: https://blogs.adobe.com/photoshop/2017/10/get-the-goods-announcing-updates-to-photoshop-cc-dimension...
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Explorer ,
Oct 19, 2017 Oct 19, 2017
Wow great, thanks!
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Explorer ,
Oct 21, 2017 Oct 21, 2017
LATEST

it only took several years for adobe to get on the ball with this, but better late than never

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