Corel Painter Help :
Color : Limiting and preventing leakage
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In complex drawings, lines don’t always meet, which can cause the fill to leak into areas that you don’t want filled — sometimes through the whole image. You can’t always tell if there’s a leak just by looking at your image. If you click a small area and see the prompt, Now Looking for Extent of Fill, there’s probably a leak, and Corel Painter is preparing to fill a bigger area than you had in mind. In this case, you can abort the fill.
You can limit leakage to a specific rectangular area. In typical cartoon line work, unbounded areas — for example, hair, tail feathers, and brush bristles — sometimes must be filled. By limiting leakage to a specific area, you can close off these items. You can also close leaks by copying the lines to a selection, saving the selection to a channel, editing the channel, and then reloading it to the selection. For more information about editing channels, refer to Editing channels.
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Choose Edit Undo Paint Bucket Fill. |
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Press Command + Z (Mac OS), or Ctrl + Z (Windows). |
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Choose Select Save Selection. |
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In the Save Selection dialog box, choose New from the Save to list box. |
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In the Channels panel, display and select the channel. |
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In the Color panel, set black as the current Main Color. |
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Choose Select Load Selection. |
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In the Load Selection dialog box, choose the modified channel from the Load From list box. |
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Enable the Replace Selection option to replace the original with the edited version. |
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The channel does not have to be selected to contain the fill. If you deselect the channel in the Channels panel, the loaded selection is still in effect.
![filling leaks](images/Corel-Painter-painting-close-leak.jpg)
Edit the channel to close leaks. Remember to load the channel back into the selection after editing.
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