Coloring issues with magic wand tool and paint bucket tool, leaves uncolored areas near drawn lines

Photoshop CS6 doesn't color properly. Whetever I use brush tool or elliptical marquee tool to do the lines (with brush tool I use Hard Round, not soft), it doesn't color the whole area when i fill them with color. This happens with both magic wand tool AND paint bucket tool, there is always a small uncolored area near the lines. I have tolerance on 30, and anti-alias, contiguous and sample all layers boxes checked. (this setting worked on my old CS3) I have tried tolerance from 0 to 100, no difference. I have also tried unchecking the boxes I just mentioned, still no difference. I hope there is a solution for this, because it is tedious to always go to the Select - Modify - Expand every time I need to color some area. So how do I fix this problem? I use seperate layers for lines and colors, like I have always done with other Photoshop versions. Even in school where they have CS5 those normal settings work.

Hello Chris,
I don't think this is a "user error". I think Adobe should be able to program a state of the art paint bucket, which is capable to get this done right.
Other applications are able to get this done right.
Please don't fall into a programmer's ignorance ("this is done right by definition") but listen to us artists and improve this unintuitive behavior. Add something like "ignore transparent pixels", because this doesn't even work if you draw on an empty layer.
Thank you!

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Photoshop CS4 type tool and paint bucket

I am teaching Photoshop CS4 to my students and have started having problems I've never encountered.
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Live paint bucket tool problem.

hello.
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The Live Paint Bucket tool lets you paint faces and edges of Live Paint groups with the current fill and stroke attributes. The tool pointer displays as either one or three color squares, which represent the selected fill or stroke color and, if you’re using colors from a swatch library, the two colors adjacent to the selected color in the library. You can access the adjacent colors, as well as the colors next to those, and so on, by pressing the left or right arrow key.

Paint bucket tool and its barriers

I'm using the paint bucket tool on a graphing calculator image and the -6.67 interferes with the line so the paint bucket tool fills in gray where it isn't supposed to go. I tried to fill in the line with the freeform pen tool and the line tool, but the paint bucket tool still fills in the gray wrong. Can you help?..The same problem happens at 10 as well.

It does sound like a lot. I'm not at a computer with PS, so I can't post screen shots, but this is what you do:
create a duplicate copy of your graph layer by pressing ctrl/cmd-J. Set the blending mode to "Multiply," which is the drop down menu at the top of the layer pallet. You can turn off this layer for a bit while you do the other steps by clicking on the eye in the layer pattet.
Select the other visible graph layer, and select the brush tool (B) and and a hard edged brush. Set the foreground color to white (I'm assuming your graph layer is white and black and not black with transparency.) Paint over the lettering between the line that is broken.
Then set the foreground color to black and reduce the brush size to the size of your line. Paint in a line to fill the gap (there are other ways to do this such a a stroked path).
Now that the line is filled in, select the magic wand tool (w). Make sure the check box in the main menu is checked for contiguous, so it just selects the enclosed area and not all the white area.
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Create a new layer by clicking on the new layer icon in the layer's pallet (at the bottom) or by pressing ctrl-shift-N.
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Paint bucket tool after drawing with brush tool

Hi,
I am just wondering if there is anyway to paint using the paint bucket tool properly after drawing something using the brush tool. Although I have no gaps anywhere within the outline , there are times where the paint bucket tool doesn't paint. Another issue I encounter is whenever I try to adjust the shape with the selection tool it either fills a portion of the shape with color and even sometimes makes the shape itself disappear. Is there a way to only select a small portion of the drawing (like the way it is with pencil tool) as the shapes were done using a couple of strokes instead of just one.

Hi,
You can use use paint bucket tool to change the color of lines drawn with brush.And to be sure that there are no gaps select the line with subselection tool because visually you cannot make out as the gaps are defined in pixels.Also you can select parts of fill region with selection tool if the painting with brush is done in shape mode not object drawing mode.Hope this helps.
Thanks,
Sangeeta

Paintbrush and paint bucket use wrong color in PE6 for Mac

Hi. I am trying to use either the paintbrush or paint bucket tool to add a solid color in a layer. I choose a foreground color and apply the tool and instead of using the color I've chosen, it uses an old color I used several photos ago. (I chose the old color with the eyedropper tool in case that matters). No matter what I do, it seems that this old color is stuck in both the paintbrush and paint bucket. I've tried choosing a different color with the eyedropper, and although that color appears as the foreground color, the old "bad" color still applies when I use either the paintbrush or bucket tool. I have reset the tools (no luck), rebooted photoshop (no luck), tried switching back to the default (B&W) colors (still no luck). Does anyone have any suggestion what I can try? I'm new to the forum and have tried searching for this issue, but can't find it. I apologize if this is an old issue. Thank you for your help.

Hi, thank you for this suggestion. I will try it, and it also sounds useful for lots of quirky things. In the meantime, I tried something else that solved my problem. I reset the eyedropper tool and picked another color with it and it cleared it out. I had reset all the tools, but somehow it didn't work until I did this. Thank you for your help.

Paint bucket tool not painting color on canvas

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I am having the same problem and have checked the mode. Normal. Still not working- I have tried eve
rything includig unlocking the layer- checking the opacity and tolerance.
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The paint bucket tool is not working properly. The colors does not change, any suggestion?

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Paint Bucket tool and scanned imges

Hi,
Not a problem this apart from my ability to understand how
things work! - so sorry if this is a really stupid question - but
I'd be grateful if someone could enlighten me
If I draw (using old fashioned pen and paper) an line image
with a fair amount of detail, scan it and open it in Fireworks, I
can use the Paint Bucket tool to fill various parts of the image
with different colours (in other words it recognises the boundaries
between parts of the drawing.) This suits the way I like to work
perfectly
On the other hand, other packages (including FreeHand) don't
seem to be able to do this.
Am I missing something - or is there something unique about
the way Fireworks works?
Thanks
Roger

Roger,
Once you select the Paint Bucket Tool look in the Properties
panel and
make sure the Fill Selection checkbox is unchecked. Play
around with the
Tolerance setting to get the results you want.
alex
rogerfowles wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Not a problem this apart from my ability to understand
how things work! - so
> sorry if this is a really stupid question - but I'd be
grateful if someone
> could enlighten me
>
> If I draw (using old fashioned pen and paper) an line
image with a fair amount
> of detail, scan it and open it in Fireworks, I can use
the Paint Bucket tool to
> fill various parts of the image with different colours
(in other words it
> recognises the boundaries between parts of the drawing.)
This suits the way I
> like to work perfectly
>
> On the other hand, other packages (including FreeHand)
don't seem to be able
> to do this.
>
> Am I missing something - or is there something unique
about the way Fireworks
> works?
>
> Thanks
>
> Roger
>
>
>

Issues with Adobe PSE 12 and Premier Elements 12 plus DiskWarrior 4.4

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Cheers

This is one of the things you can only do with scriptlistener. Here is one way to clean up the code.
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You could clean it up more by adding data type checks for the arguments.

Lenovo G560 - Issue with won't boot and black screen after HDD upgrade

Lenovo G560 - Issue with won't boot and black screen after HDD upgrade.
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Is there an issue with Safari in Iphones and Ipads where it does not recognize option disabled="disabled" tag properly?

Greetings everybody,
I have run into a peculiar problem with the Safari browser on mobile platforms (IPad, IPod, IPhone) which I hope I can find a solution for in this community.
I just launched a new website where I sell products with certain variations, for example please view this link: http://www.finerribbon.com/aegean-single-face-satin-ribbon.html
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Hi...
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