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Snebjørn
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January 14, 2013
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P: Paint bucket Fill tool close-gaps, tolerance & do not fill this color

  • January 14, 2013
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(This is mainly aimed at digital painters)
Being able to detect gaps in line work, and paint/select within the space. As illustrated in the photo.

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    oliq0101
    Participating Frequently
    September 2, 2022

    Hi,
    I think it's time to make the Fill tool smarter. 🙂
    The fill tool becomes useless when you try to fill an outline shape. It always leaves a gap no matter the tolerance you set. 
    There are several solutions posted in Youtube. Like this:
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bxZuVX_acDo&t=15s&ab_channel=EnvatoTuts%2B
    An option to create a new layer (fill layer) under the original (stroke layer) can be really usefull too. Ask to the community. 

    Thanks

      msarnone
      msarnone
      Participant
      June 23, 2022

      Imagine the Paint Bucket tool but with real-time tolerance adjustments and super smooth edge-interpolation. I won't name the (mobile) competitor but I've seen what else this tool could be and, as a concept artist, I now see that kind of reimagining as essential for a modern digital painting application.

       

      With the right implementation, you could make the Paint Bucket a crazy fun, fast and versatile creative tool. As it is now, its just a barely passable, perfunctory legacy feature.

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      DaveJCummingsCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      June 23, 2022

      That would be an awesome feature.

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      TotalGhost
      Participant
      April 19, 2022

      At present, there doesn't appear to be any reliable way to modify the paint bucket tool in Photoshop to close gaps or fine-tune tolerance. As an ink & line illustrator, primarily working in rasterised, hand-drawn ink artwork the Photoshop paint bucket tool is of limited use to me. ClipStudio EX Paint, a Korean (photoshop-a-like) application (for Mac OS & iOS) has many useful features for ink & fill that are absent from Photoshop. I use Clipstudio when I can. Unfortunately, Clipstudio Paint EX isn't the most stable software. Regardless, Photoshop could benefit from some of the excellent features in ClipStudio. As you can see I've accidentally filled the colour layer (in Photoshop) with the ink outline- a green ghost line. Of course, undo is an option but the green "ghost" outline might not be spotted on a layer below. This error can leave a faint ghost outline. Many Adobe Community members avoid the paint bucket tool entirely and use a combination of shortcut actions F-Keys to colour and ink artwork. I do this too. There are other ways to mitigate this problem but ClipStudio Paint has this nailed. For the Manga/Graphic Novel and Ink & line artist Photoshop (and Fresco) has no easy solution for this common problem. Clipstudio's paint bucket not only offers fine adjustments of tolerance, area-scaling, and close-gaps but also avoids filling for black lines (or any colour specified) -see photos. Did I mention ClipStudio also has a paint behind and paint inside brush? Time for an update Adobe surely. Clip Studios many paint bucket tools- the paint behind is simular to the Adobe Animate tool

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      FeedbackCommunityMember
      Inspiring
      August 4, 2021

      After working with Procreate on iPad, I feel like there's so much Adobe should take note of. One of them relates to fill options. Procreate has this slick fill option where as you click and drop a color, dragging left or right without lifting the stylus will adjust your fill threshold with live results, allowing you to find the perfect setting without have to adjust numerical values, undoing, and trying again. The paint bucket tool has been long without an update and the addition of this kind of functionality would make the tool more stylus friendly. 

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      Someone75
      Inspiring
      February 15, 2021

      Like this.

      It's standard in other programs like Clip Studio for years. Something which works perfectly even with just a stack of lines. So why should Photoshop not be able to offer such tools, too?

      https://assets.clip-studio.com/de-de/detail?id=1800143

      https://tips.clip-studio.com/de-de/articles/590

      https://tips.clip-studio.com/en-us/articles/1263

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      Someone75
      Inspiring
      February 15, 2021

      It's standard in other programs like Clip Studio for years. Something which works perfectly even with just a stack of lines. So why should Photoshop not be able to offer such tools, too?

      https://assets.clip-studio.com/de-de/detail?id=1800143

      https://tips.clip-studio.com/de-de/articles/590

      https://tips.clip-studio.com/en-us/articles/1263

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      Someone75
      Inspiring
      February 15, 2021

      It's standard in other programs for years. Something which works perfectly even with just a stack of lines. So why should Photoshop not be able to offer such tools, too?

      https://assets.clip-studio.com/de-de/detail?id=1800143

      https://tips.clip-studio.com/de-de/articles/590

      https://tips.clip-studio.com/en-us/articles/1263

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        coreyarte
        Known Participant
        October 2, 2019
        Doesnt have to be a filter, not everything has to be a filter. I think adobe just needs to look at their other art software like flash(animate), or illustrator to see how to add this feature. It would make alot of artist happy.
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        coreyarte
        Known Participant
        November 24, 2018
        I Would love this feature. When Im coloring line art it would be so much faster if the paint bucket could detect gaps like in Flash. Or even the Magic wand tool had this feature.
        Kukurykus
        Kukurykus
        Legend
        July 31, 2018
        'Select and Mask' in contrary to 'Refine Edges' is limited when you want by a script open 'Select and Mask' with your values and then read changed ones after clicking okey button. With 'Refine Edges' that was scriptable while with 'Select and Mask' you can either use your values with no chance to read changed ones or use default ones and read changed. That's sad, a thing that worked well now is broken for so long time.

        There is secret 'Refine Egdes' panel still in CC 2018 when you open it from menu holding Shift key, but you ca not imitate Shift key in this case by a script, while attempt to use 'Refine Edges' Script Listener record results as 'Select and Mask' panel 😕😕
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