In article <hmvte.15660$>,
"Scudo" wrote:
If I set the tolerance too low it just fills very small amounts and if I set high I get ragged edges and have to spend time retouching the edges. As I use this feature a lot for web pictures
(a photo of an item with just a white background) I was wonderering if there is a better way to do this or how to achieve a better result.
That is correct.
One of the most basic mistakes people make when learning Photoshp is thinking that the Paint bucket is a fill tool.
The paint bucket is not a fill tool. You should not use it when your goal is just to fill an area with color. in Photoshop, you fill an area with color by holding down the Option key on your keyboard and pressing the Delete key, or by using the Edit->Fill command, not by using the Paint Bucket. in fact, when you get proficient with Photoshop, you will probably never touch the Paint Bucket again.
The Paint Bucket is intended as a cross between the Fill command and the Magic Wand tool. When you use it, it analyzes the color of the pixel you click on. Then it spreads out in all directions, filling as it goes, until it reaches a place where the pixels are a different color, where it stops. It does precisly the same thing as if you had clicked with the Magic Wand, then used Edit->Fill. It is not used just to fill an area with color.
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