Limiting and preventing leakage

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.

To undo a fill

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Choose Edit Undo Paint Bucket Fill.

To limit leakage

1	Choose the Paint Bucket tool from the toolbox.

2	On the property bar, click the Fill Cell button or the Fill Image button .

To close a leak

2	Choose Select Save Selection.

10	Choose Select Load Selection.

If you want to adjust the mask threshold, double-click the Paint Bucket tool in the toolbox, and move the slider.

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.

Edit the channel to close leaks. Remember to load the channel back into the selection after editing.

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