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Paint Bucket Tool filling blank areas.

New Here ,
Sep 10, 2017 Sep 10, 2017

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Hi.I'm trying to fill in a black circle with different colours but every time i try little lines fill in random places.I have tried playing around with Tolerance, Anti Aliasing and the contiguous option but the only different result i would get were bigger lines poking out (shown in picture) or part of the original colour still present (shown in picture)Screen Shot 2017-09-10 at 10.03.39.pngScreen Shot 2017-09-10 at 09.59.15.png

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Community Expert , Sep 10, 2017 Sep 10, 2017

Are you colouring all the solid pixels on that layer? If so then doing this may work better

Add a new Color Fill layer above your circle layer (Layer -New Fill Layer - Solid Color)

Alt Click on the border, in the layers panel, between the two layers. A small down arrow will appear and the color fill layer will be clipped to the layer below

Using this method you can change the colour at any time by clicking and editing the color fill layer

Dave

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Sep 10, 2017 Sep 10, 2017

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Hello MWB123​ The paint bucket tool isn't good to paint over raster images, in this case your circle, it can paint over even on the anti-aliasing pixels,  you can try to use the pen tool and mask over you circle, then hide your underneath layer. This method should create a more clean and precise work. Let me know if this is helpful.

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Hi! Thank you so much for you help. I have tried this on one section of my circle and it seemed to work.Is there a way to select all the pixels of the circle because i have a transparent background. Thanks

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Just use CTRL+Click (Command+Click on Mac) on your layer like this

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Or you can use the load selection tool on Select>Load Selection

A more extensive tutorial can be found here : Load selections from a layer in Photoshop

I hope this will help you!

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Are you colouring all the solid pixels on that layer? If so then doing this may work better

Add a new Color Fill layer above your circle layer (Layer -New Fill Layer - Solid Color)

Alt Click on the border, in the layers panel, between the two layers. A small down arrow will appear and the color fill layer will be clipped to the layer below

Using this method you can change the colour at any time by clicking and editing the color fill layer

Dave

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Thank you so much for your help!!

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You're very welcome

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