In short, no, there is no gap tolerance setting. The way the paint bucket tool works is similar to the magic wand in that it uses the Eyedropper tool to set the sample size (point sample, 3×3, or 5×5). So it then matches that sample size to the tolerance settings in the options bar and fills.
Personally, I never use the paint bucket tool – I don’t think ever. You can get your selection via a variety of ways and then tweak it before filling it. So for my money the Paint Bucket isn’t all that useful.
Peace,
Tony
Alternatively, you can add a layer on top (or beneath), paint across the gap and use the Paint Bucket with the Use All Layers option enabled fill on the original layer. Voila! 🙂
The problem is that it’s horribly time consuming painting over each gap. This problem ocurrs typically when you have a hand drawn border and there are hunderds of small gaps
Hmm, yes, much more interesting…
Try this:
Magic Wand in the desired area
Contract Selection until the gaps close
New Layer
Fill (you now have a bunch of "islands")
Magic Wand the desired regions on the Fill layer
Expand Selection (back to meet the edges of whatever)
Delete the Fill layer
Make sense?
Hmm, I’ll try it, maybe it works. Thanks very much for your help 🙂
