Corel Painter Help | Applying a color as a fill

Quick links to procedures on this page:

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To apply a color fill

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To apply a pixel-based color fill

Applying a color as a fill

Corel Painter gives you different options for applying a color as a fill. You can quickly apply a fill to a selected area of an image or you can apply a fill to the entire image based on a selected pixel color. When filling an image with a selected pixel color, you can apply the fill directly to the canvas or to a channel. Corel Painter fills areas of the image based on color boundaries, as well as the specified tolerance and feather settings.

Tolerance allows you to set the amount of variance allowed from the color of the selected pixel. With a low tolerance setting, Corel Painter fills only contiguous pixels that are very close to the selected pixel color. With a high tolerance setting, Corel Painter fills a greater range of colors.

Feathering softens the edges of the fill by controlling the fill opacity for pixels with colors outside the tolerance range. For example, if feather is set to zero (the default), only pixels in the tolerance range are filled. With a low feather setting, pixels with colors just outside the Tolerance range receive partial fill. Increasing the feather setting increases the range of colors that receive partial fill. Pixels with colors farther from the tolerance range receive a more transparent fill. Typically, when feather is set high, tolerance is set low.

You can also fill the interior of an area that is bound by lines. This is especially useful for producing solid fills of regions bounded by anti-aliased lines. If you want to fill regions completely, without affecting the lines, you can first copy the lines to a selection. Then, when you fill the cells, the lines are protected.

To apply a color fill

1

In the Color panel, double-click the Main Color (front) swatch

in the Color Selector.

2

Choose a color from the Color dialog box.

3

To apply a gradient to:

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The canvas — Click the Canvas in the Layers panel.

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A selection — Click a selection tool from the toolbox, and drag in the document window to select an area.

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A layer — Click a layer in the Layers panel.

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A channel — Click a channel in the Channels panel.

4

Choose Edit

Fill.

If you prefer, press Command + F (Mac OS) or Ctrl + F (Windows).

5

In the Fill dialog box, choose Current Color from the Fill with list box.

6

Adjust the Opacity slider.

To apply a pixel-based color fill

1

Choose Window

Color Panels

Color Sets.

2

In the Color Sets panel, click the Color Sets options button

, and choose New Color Set from Image.

3

In the New Colorset dialog box, type a name in the Name text box.

4

Choose the Paint Bucket tool

from the toolbox.

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On the property bar, click one of the following buttons:

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Fill Image

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Fill Cell

6

Choose the Current Color option from the Fill list box.

7

Open the Select Fill panel, and choose a color.

The image color set displays in the Select Fill palette.

8

Click the image in the drawing window.

If the result is not what you want, undo the fill, change the settings, and try again.


You can also
Specify the range of colors to be filled	On the property bar, type a value in the Tolerance box or adjust the slider.
Specify the fill opacity for pixels outside of the tolerance range	On the property bar, type a value in the Feather box or adjust the slider.
Soften the edges of the fill	On the property bar, click the Anti-Alias button . Anti-aliasing is desirable when the Feather setting is set to zero or extremely low.

You can constrain the fill to a rectangular area by dragging with the Paint Bucket tool.

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