
232 Corel Painter X3 Getting Started Guide
You can constrain the fill to a rectangular area by dragging with the
Paint Bucket tool.
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” on page 538.
To undo a fill
• To undo a fill, do one of the following:
• Choose Edit Undo Paint Bucket Fill.
• Press Command + Z (Mac OS), or Ctrl + Z (Windows).
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 .
3 Drag to create a rectangle that just covers the area you want to fill.
If there is no leak, only the area within the lines is filled. If there is a leak, the fill
goes outside the area, but not beyond the constraints of your rectangle.
To close a leak
1 Copy the lines to a selection.
2 Choose Select Save Selection.
3 In the Save Selection dialog box, choose New from the Save to list box.
Comentarios a estos manuales