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sorry during posting the question part of my question was earased- the problem is that between the smooth lines of the shape to be filled and the fill there’s a gap, no matter what the tolerance, be it 100 or even 200
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* What version are you using?
* What are you using to Fill?
* How are you creating your shapes?
* What do you mean by tolerence?
What do you mean by tolerence?
Well at least he spelt it right! B)
You really should try to be more tolerunt tolarnut tolarent tolerant John.
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# What version are you using? – CS
# What are you using to Fill? – paint bucket tool
# How are you creating your shapes? – draw using a paintbrush
# What do you mean by tolerence? – tolerance
It looks like you don’t have a closed shape there and the Paintbrush may be the wrong tool for outlining your shape. Even if it were to fill properly, the color would "leak" out through the gap.
Since it has anti-aliased (fuzzy) edges, it will be more difficult to fill, especially using the Paint Bucket, which is also the wrong tool for the job. The Paint Bucket is filling areas (pixels)of a certain color and the fuzzy edges of the brush stroke are not that particular color. That’s where Tolerance comes in. More tolerance means Photoshop wil allow close colors to be filled or replaced. Look at the settings on the Options Bar.
You would be better off making a selection, using the Lasso or Pen and filling that area by Edit>Fill.
You need to go through he manual and Help files and get a better grasp of what the various tools do.
Is this the view at 100%?
The Paint bucket is detecting you are using a soft-edged brush to draw your shapes. If those lines must be soft, create a new layer, make an unfeathered selection of the area you wish to fill and then use Edit>Fill instead of the paint bucket.
"You would be better off making a selection, using the Lasso or Pen and filling that area by Edit>Fill."
The most versatile method would be to create the shapes as vectors and fill them through the Shape Layer process.
…. or even create the vector and use a Solid Color adjustment layer.
The take-away key concept: vectors!
Yup! It ties in nicely with an earlier post about smoothly rendered text.
If one wishes to paint into an onscreen area try:
1 – use on of the select tools to select the area (saving the selection can be helpful especially if the area may require further tweaking later on)
2 – while the selection is active grab a brush of choice with colour of choice and paint. This will constrain the brush and applied colour to the active selection. (It may be a good idea to work on a new layer)
