Paint Bucket Problem

hi everybody i have big problem i cant use paint bucket my settings are rgb settting i checked but i cant paint

Your Opacity in the tool options bar is set to 40%
Set the Opacity to 100% and see if that works

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  • Paint bucket and Pencil color fill problem

    Hi,
    I'm coloring a comic book and I'm having an annoying bug with CS4.
    Say I want to color these bushes:
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    Then fill it with the Paint bucket (anti-aliasing off, contiguous, sample all layers) using the same color.
    Now say I later decide to change that color; naturally I'll use the Paint bucket.
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    But on closer inspection, it turns out the CMYK values are off by 1%. I have no idea why this happens. The tools are all set at the exact same color and opacity.
    Someone posted a thread 9 months ago about this problem but it wasn't solved: http://forums.adobe.com/thread/781035
    He says it also occurs on CS5.
    I can only assume it's a bug. Help?

    I just tried with the pencil set to Multiply, and it happened. And contradicting what I said earlier, the problem happened with Normal as well.
    Well, here's another update: the real culprit seems to be the paint bucket tool. I experimented with color samplers to precisely measure the CMYK values. This is completely bizarre:
    The paint bucket will occasionnally fill with a color that is off by 1% from the intended color. It seems to happen randomly, but more often with darker colors.
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  • Photoshop CS6: Problem - paint bucket

    Hello,
    I am used to work with Photoshop. Unfortunately there is a bug in the paint bucket tool of Photoshop CS6. I made all updates up to 13.0.1 (x64).
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    Kind regards
    Ameeon

    hmmm ... but now it works.
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  • Big problem, Live Paint Bucket changing strokes

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  • Live paint bucket tool problem.

    hello.
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  • Photoshop CC 2014 Paint bucket doesn't work

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  • Photoshop CS4 type tool and paint bucket

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  • Live Paint Bucket in CS5

    Using Illustrator on a Windows box running XP sp3 with an Intuos 2
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    This hasn't helped either.   Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong.  I've consulted the Help and either I can't read English with comprehension or........I can't find the correct words to bring up the problem.
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    I'll try to help. Since I don't know what you expect to see, it is hard to say what you're doing wrong. The gold line end, in the top left boxed area, can be selected with the Live Paint Selection tool and either deleted or painted with "none". Clicking on the line can be tricking with the selection tool because it tends to select the fill instead. Zoom in and you will see when it's selected, then just hit "delete" or type "/" to assign a stroke color of "none" to the selection.
    You can also using the Live Paint Bucket tool to do this. With the Bucket tool active, hold "shift" to highlight strokes, then choose "none" and click. You can scroll through the color choices using the left and right arrow tools.
    I'm not sure what you want to change in the center section. Remember, you don't have to release the Live Paint object to make edits to the paths with the pen or pencil tools. They remain fully editable. You can also add new paths to the Live Paint object by either working in "isolation mode" or by dragging paths into the Live Paint object within the Layers Panel.

  • Live Paint Bucket tool Question

    Hello Illustrators.
    Its been a while since I've used this tool. But I'm facing an issue I cannot understand.
    I'm seeing some tutorials and as I try to follow along I cannot have the same functions of the tool as demonstrated.
    My live paint bucket tool does not have the same options as the tutor. He can swipe his arrow keys and get the colours from the colour pallet, while I only have one colour available.
    I have to continuously have to go to my colour pallet and choose a colour in order for my shapes to be filled. But when it comes to colouring a stroke of my shape then no problems I can swipe and get my colour
    selection. Id like to be able to use it for my fill colour as well to be swipe my arrow keys and see the colours available if it makes sense.
    Top Image is what Id like to achieve.
    The bottom image is what I have in my art board document. as seeing only one colour is available, and that I have to click on my colour pallet to get a colour. No swiping with arrow keys is available.
    Thank you.

    Hello Craig!
    yes it is! Its the 1st time I'm coming across this problem, I'm getting frustrated not being able to work this issue out...
    As you can see everything is checked.
    And also as you can see, like I was stating in my original post, the option to swipe with arrow keys only applies to the stroke of the shape, and not the fill.

  • When do we use Pentool, live paint bucket or brush?

    For example, I want to draw a bush
    I know there are many different ways to create: some use pen tool, some use live paint bucket tool, some use brush and eraser.
    No matter what methods we use, it all leads us to the same result. I want to draw as smart and convinient as much as possible. So I dont understand in which case what method we should use. I am recommended to use basic shapes as much as possible when drawing. But when drawing complex objects, it takes too much time to use basic shapes to create
    For example, In this case I think we should use brush and eraser
    I think that using pentool can make my work goes faster. But why do people use live paint bucket tool and when we need to use basic shapes to create objects?
    Is that right when I said that it depends on what style of art we are creating? (such as logo, flat UI design, artwork for children, ect...)
    *Question from a newbie to illustrator TT_TT*

    This is the kind of question I like most to see in drawing software forums and it's increasingly rare. So first, let me commend you for thinking in terms of seeking usual and customary best practice, rather than just assuming every whiz-bang, instant gratification cheap trick feature should be employed willy-nilly without ever a thought toward the elegance of your drawing's structure. It suggests you are serious about maintaining quality in your vector drawing, rather than just assuming anything that "looks good" on your monitor is "quality."
    Unfortunately, one could write a whole book on this. So I'll try to keep the following general and reasonably brief. That may make it sound a bit preachy. If you want to talk more specifics, continue the thread conversation.
    Vector drawing is, by its nature, an exacting medium. It strains against itself when it pretends to be "painterly."
    There is, of course, a balance between a strictly purist mindset and real-world practicality. The way to find your balance is to approach automated effects (especially new ones) with a healthy dose of skepticism. Try them, sure; but closely examine the results, tear them apart, and try to understand what's really going on.
    Regarding specific features you mention (Live Paint, Brush, Eraser), try them, examine the results, and consider whether the results are what you would expect if they'd been deliberately and efficently drawn. I find that Live Paint and Shape Builder (much the same thing) usually do a decent job of maintaining true-ness to the original paths, matching abutting edges which should be exactly identical without creation of many unnecessary anchors.
    I find much  the opposite to be true of features like Offset Path, Outline Stroke, and even moreso of features like Variable Strokes. Basically anything that involves automated enveloping (not just Envelopes, but also things like ArtBrushes) are suspect. I'm certainly not saying never use them, but be as aware as you can of what's going on. I leverage Artbrushes and Pattern Brushes to high advantage for certain things, but I do so knowingly, not willy-nilly. I rarely ever acutally use the Brush or Pencil or Blob Tools. I create the artwork contained in the Brushes as cleanly as possible and apply the Brush to deliberately-drawn paths.
    Much has to do with the intended practical uses of the final artwork. For example, overlapping paths is standard fare for artwork destined for print. It's a functional deal-breaker for artwork that wil also be used to drive a cutter/plotter for signage. (Just one reason why proper logo master files should be as cleanly constructed as possible.)
    Automated routines--no matter how seemingly "powerful"--do not have human discernment. The poster-child example of this is autotracing. An autotracing feature doesn't know a round iris from a hex bolt. The autotracing features of mainstream drawing programs don't even have any geometric shape recognition. So with infrequent exceptions, autotracing is overused pointless junk. It just trades one kind of raster-based ugliness (pixelation) for another kind of vector-based ugliness (shapeless jaggedness).
    I know...you didn't mention autotracing. But I mention it as an extreme case of a principle that you can apply to the features you did mention: Ask yourself what a purely mathematical algorithm with zero aesthetic discernment is going to yield in terms of what you would consider elegant execution.
    Again, I'll cite a well-known extreme: Anyone who has ever had to deal with auto-generated 2D DXF exports from CAD/CAE programs is familiar with the ubiquitous problem of dealing with thousands of tiny disjointed straight segments meant to represent a curve. Those tasked with handling such drudgery deal with it routinely. Some of them even devise additonal automated algorithms to make a bad situation marginally better. Yes, it "gets the job done." Yes, today's computer hardware can process the ridiculous amount of geometrically unnecessary data without choking. Yes, at the scale at which it will be printed in the parts catalog, the faceted shape will not be distractingly noticeable. But no self-respecting technical illustrator would ever actually draw the same subject that way from scratch, and his far more elegantly drawn-from-scratch result would be far more versatile and robust for multiple final uses.
    Your bush example is not so complex as to make drawing deliberately and directly with the Pen impractical. In fact, doing so is much less work than the second example using a bunch of ellipses and applying boolean operations.  But maybe you stylistically desire each edge of each blade to be a portion of a mathematical ellipse or even strictly circular. In that case, using automated boolean operations may be justified. But (especially in Illustrator) I would be sure to carefully examine the results. Illustrator's automated path generation routines (Pathfinders, Offset Path, Outline Stroke) have been notorious at various times (versions) for generating ugly and sometimes functionally problematic artifacts such as needless coincident anchors (for just one example).
    Your second example of the "scratchboard" style illustration is a case-in-point of situations where we make value judgements and (hopefully careful) compromise between semi-automation and path-drawing purism. You're trying to emulate an expressly non-geometric aesthetic style. The particular example is a good one, because it's a "borderline" example. That drawing is simple enough that it could be drawn entirely anchor-by-anchor, and I would likely do it that way if, for example, it was going to be cut from sign vinyl enlarged to the scale of a trade show background or a wall hanging in an airport.
    But if it were only to serve as a one-time placement as a spot graphic in a magazine, I might, for example, create an ArtBrush for certain portions of it, like the selected sun rays, and "let it go" for practical considerations. (Although I'd not deliver it as such; I'd consider it a matter of due dilligence to expand such semi-automated "live" onstructs and check the paths for reasonable cleanness.)
    Bear in mind, Bezier-based drawing has been the mainstream for three decades now. We're not "fooling anyone" anymore. There now exists a new aesthetic discernment. Even our audiences are well aware that digital emulations of the randomness of so-called "natural media" are just that; contrived digital emulations. Our audiences view our artwork with a certain skepticism.
    And when you put something in print, there's (hopefully, although I often wonder) still the matter of professional pride which bears in mind that our artwork will be viewed not by just the "unsuspecting public" but also by our peers; our colleagues. So you want to avoid any "dead giveaways" of execution by "cheap tricks" which "hurt the eyes" of other vector illustrators. At the scale viewed on this computer in this forum, there are details in that drawing which look like (whether they are or not) the kind of unintentional artifacts commonly generated by path operations and such. Such artifacts don't read as "natural randomness" of the emulated medium (again, we're no longer fooling anyone). They break the stylistic consistency of detail of the overall drawing and therefore look like unintentional but disregarded results of some automated feature.
    So anytime you employ an automated path-generating feature, consider it normal to perform some cleanup on the result. Again, an extreme-case common situation exemplifies the principle. I put 3D Effect to use, but I would never deliver the raw results of it as final deliverable vector artwork. Automated features can be used as a rough-out tool; a means to an end, not the final end itself.
    JET

  • Flash Paint Bucket Help.

    I downloaded an image from the web and brought it into Flash. I then created a new layer and began tracing over the image with the pen tool. When all was said and done, I went to use the paint bucket tool to fill in the sections of the paths I created. My only problem is I can't fill the image. I click and click and no color is being filled. I tried converting the selection to both movie clip and graphic symbols and I still can't fill it in. Anyone have any suggestions? All answers are greatly appreciated! Thanks.
    I'm working with Adobe Flash CS3.

    First, don't convert to movie clips or graphics. The paint bucket only works on raw shapes for what you're trying to do.
    Most likely there are tiny gaps in the outlines you're drawing. The paint bucket will only fill a completely closed area...or...
    It will compensate for tiny gaps if you set it to do so. On the main toolbar (usually on the left of your workspace), after you've selected the paint bucket tool, look for the icon under "Options", which looks like a circle with a tiny gap at the top. Click this and try different settings to get Flash to fill any gaps in your outlines.

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

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    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!

  • Paint bucket tool not painting color on canvas

    Ok - I'm new to photoshop (I just got cs4) and can't seem to get the paint bucket tool to paint the background.  I've started out with a new canvas, selected paint bucket and color from color menu on right side.  Foreground is selected and the paint bucket tool is showing on my cursor - when I click on it over my canvas I expected it to change to the color I selected and it does nothing.  Help??

    I am having the same problem and have checked the mode.  Normal.  Still not working- I have tried eve
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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
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    make sure the Fill Selection checkbox is unchecked. Play
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    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
    >
    >
    >

  • 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.
    From the main menu, you can increase the selection size by clicking of Select>Modify>Expand.  Set the value to 1 pixel.  This will help from getting a white line near your black lines.
    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. 
    Now you can fill the selection on the new layer by pressing ctrl-backspace for the current background color, or alt-backspace for the current foreground color.
    Press ctrl/cmd-D to deselect the selection and you can then turn on the visibility of your graph layer.

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