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80 Painting and Drawing

Flood and pattern fills

The Flood Fill Tool works on Background and standard layers, replacing

an existing color region with the foreground color. How large a region is

"flooded" with the fill color depends on the difference between the color of the

pixel you initially click and the color of surrounding pixels.

You can use the Context toolbar to set a tolerance value—how much of a color

difference the tool looks for. With a low tolerance setting, the tool "gives up

easily" and only fills pixels very close in color to the one you click (a setting of 0

would fill only pixels of the same color; 255 would fill all pixels). As the tolerance

increases, so does the tool's effect on pixels further in color from the original

pixel, so a larger region is flooded.

When Antialias is checked, the boundary of a color fill is smoothed; uncheck to

produce a hard edge to the fill boundary.

When checked, Contiguous affects only pixels connected to the clicked pixel;

uncheck to affect in-range pixels throughout the region.

The Context toolbar includes an All Layers option. If checked, the Flood Fill

tool samples pixels on all layers (both shown and hidden) underlying the click

point, as if the layers were merged into one. If unchecked, it only samples pixels

on the active layer. In either case, it only fills pixels on the active layer.

A pattern can be applied as a fill from the Context toolbar by picking a Pattern

(click the thumbnail) from the gallery, then choosing the Fill drop down list to

be "Pattern".

To use the Flood Fill Tool:

1. Select the

Flood Fill Tool from the Tools toolbar's Fill Tools

flyout.

2. Set tolerance and layer fill options (see above) on the Context toolbar.

3. Click with the tool where you want to start the fill.

The Edit>Fill... command lets you flood-fill a region on a standard layer using

any color, not just the foreground color. On the other hand, it’s strictly a solid

color flood without the subtleties of the Flood Fill Tool’s properties. Simply

choose the command to display the Fill dialog.

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