If you have ever had an issue with the Paint Bucket Tool it may well be one of these
Today we take a look at several issues with the Paint Bucket tool – Then the solutions to these problems so you can get the best out of your Paint Bucket tool in Adobe Photoshop
Issue 1 – Paint Bucket Fill gives blurry edges
You make a selection in photoshop. You then fill in the selection with the paint bucket tool. The problem is it ends up not fully putting the fill inside the selection, and leaves blurry lines on the outside of the selection.
Answer
You may need to check the feather is set to 0px before you make your selection.
Additonally you could
- Make your selection, then save it.
- Deselect the selection, so you are on a new blank layer.
- Fill the layer with the color you want.
- Load your selection.
- Then inverse it.
- Then hit delete.
- Should give you a nice clean edge.
Issue 2 – Paint Bucket Tool just stops working all together
The paint bucket tool suddenly stops working for no apparent reason even though it did work on previous uses.
Answer
- Firstly make sure the layer is not locked.
- Then check other settings on the blend mode. It could be this needs resetting to normal blend mode and that’s why it acts differently.
- It could be the layer is set to a very low opacity. Check its not set to a very low tolerance setting.
- If none of the above then resetting the Paint Bucket tool in Photoshop’s Preferences will resolve it.
Issue 3 – I can’t find the Paint Bucket Tool
The paint bucket tool may be hidden under the gradient tool in the tools pallet – click and hold the gradient tool and a flyout will appear – just drag pointer to paint bucket tool and release and you got it. If you have trouble finding the gradient tool or the paint bucket, press the G key on the keyboard – that selects both tools and it will be highlighted in the tool palette
Other settings in the options bar include:
- Fill: Foreground color (i.e. the currently selected color) or Pattern. If you select pattern, the next drop-menu becomes active and you can choose a pattern to use.
- Mode: The same “blending modes” found in many other tools, including normal, dissolve, lighten, darken, etc.
- Opacity: Set lower to make the underlying image partially visible.
- Anti-alias: Make smoother edges by blending gradually with adjoining pixels.
- Contiguous: (see below).
- All layers: When using multiple layers, all layers are used to create the fill (otherwise only the selected layer is used).
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