Paint Bucket Swatch Jumping

How do I use the arrow keys with the paint bucket to contain only a select portion of colors from a color group in the swatch panel? I create a color group, but when I arrow right or left, it uses a couple colors, then it jumps all over the place. Wth?

In swatches preselect one of the colors from the group
Switch to your pointer tool
Select some vector objects
Switch to paint bucket
Use left & right arrows keys to swtich between colros in the group
If you used up or down arrow keys you would be switching groups - which is what it sounds like may have been doing.

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I am teaching Photoshop CS4 to my students and have started having problems I've never encountered.
Problem #1 - Type tool won't work. We can create a text box and type in it. Text does not show on the document but does show in the layers palette. I've made sure the layer is on top, text is not too large for text box and font color contrasts the background. I've looked at the character and paragraph palettes looking for something unusual but have found nothing.
Problem #2 - the paint bucket is "stuck" on one color. No matter which color swatch I choose, the color does not change. I have created new documents and also shut down and re-opened the program but that didn't help either.
Has enyone encountered these problems? How did you solve the problem?

the_wine_snob wrote:
The Reset Preferences "three-finger salute" is for Windows. Press and hold all there, BEFORE you launch PS. Keep holding them down THROUGH the ENTIRE loading process.
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For example, double clicking an icon on the desktop with Control-Shift-Alt held down brings up the Properties of the icon.
You actually have to press and hold the keys as soon as humanly possible after starting the app. You have to be quick, but when you're quick enough you'll get...
-Noel

Paint bucket

At my new work they use Illustrator Cs4 and shabam you guys removed the Paint Bucket.
What where yuo thinking? So tell me how must I now just add a color to something with 1 click because the live bucket is stupid.
Also how do I get into the properties of layers?
Cs4 is so confusing..
And wheres the retancler tool and the costum shape tool?
I'm very lost in it...

Perhaps you should have told the people at work you were not familiar with Illustrator or at least you make it sound that way.
The Live Paint tool is great and if you want to fill an object(s) with a color you can drag a swatch to it or select a group of objects and hit a swatch or anywhere in the color picker in the colors panel all the fills ill change to that color.
No need for bucket tool. Same goes for a stroke.
The live paint tool is great as it even allows you to fill an object in such a way as also act like a pathfinder tool and you can fill objects with fills of none making those areas transparent.
Layers properties how did you do such a thing in earlier versions? You can expand a layer and see the the groups and paths and sublayers.
The little triangle to the left of the name.
There is a drop down menu as well from the upper right hand corner.
What you need is Mordy Golding's book Real World Illustrator.

Live paint bucket tool problem.

hello.
im trying to use my live paint bucket tool and when i choose it i dont get a bucket with 3 color blocks but rather just a bucket with one color block,whats wrong?

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.

Live paint bucket and eyedropper

Right; I've got my fill color set up in the toolbar using the eye dropper.
Now I activate the 'live paint bucket' tool, and the fill color vanishes.
So I hit 'i' for the eyedropper again and lose the bucket tool.
The color picker the doesn't have eye dropper ability like big brother PS so how the f*** am I supposed to get my bucket's color? (other than fill up my swatches)
At the moment I am sampling in Photoshop and copying the hexidecimal code.
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DelBoy78 wrote:
I've found what the alt+eyedropper is all about; shortcut for applying a fill colour to a line. Thanks for that but as the image lower down shows, the areas I want to fill with colour are not built from a single fillable line.
Eyedropper applies the attributes of the clicked object to the selected object/s as set in its options accessible by double clicking the Eyedropper tool
Holding Alt while clicking with the Eyedropper (In my version CS5) does the opposite - it applies the attributes from the selected object to the object being clicked.
Holding Shift while clicking with the Eyedropper applies the color being clicked to the fill or stroke of the selected object/s depending on which (the fill or the stroke) is in front in the color selector found in the Tool box and the Color panel. Pressing the X key on your keyboard, swaps which color, fill or stroke, is in front (focus of your input).
While using the Live Paint Bucket tool, holding Alt switches temporarily to the Eyedropper tool. However using the Eyedropper to pick colors from a Live Paint group may feel as if it is working differently because it may not be picking the stroke color. This is because internally behind the scene, the Live Paint group is separating the fills as different objects without strokes. Expanding the Live Paint group reveals this.

Live Paint Bucket

Hi!
After painting live paint bucket i can't edit my picture. If i find vector element necessary to me into layers and try move it or change color my picture becomes ugly.
I can't realise it. How i can edit it?

If you want to change the of a Live Paint Group use the Live paint bucket or the Live Paint Selection tool to select the area you want to change the color, It is in the same tool group on the toolbar as the live paint bucket and the shape builder tool. Once you select an area you should be able to use the picker to change the color or a the swatch panel or the color panel.
If you want to change the shape of an object that is part of the Live Paint group use the direct select tool the white arrow.
If you want to add to the Live paint group you draw your shape (path and select both the new path you want to add and the live Paint group and use the Merge Live Paint button in the control panel at the top of the interface below the menu.
Read about working with the Live paint Groups in the help files

Where is Paint Bucket in ID CS6?

Indesign CS6, Windows XP. New to CS6 after upgrading from CS3. No paint bucket under gradint tool in CS6. or any other tool I could see.? I read Q & A about Paint Bucket alternative in AI. Is there an alternative tool to Paint Bucket in new ID?

ID has never had a Paint Bucket tool. You can specify a fill color for any object in either the Swatches or Color panels.

Photoshop CC 2014 Paint bucket doesn't work

I am just trying to fill a layer with the foreground color using the paint bucket. I have the layer set to Normal 100% opacity and the paint bucket set to foreground 100% opacity, Normal mode. But I get zero. No color at all. The layers panel does show the color, just not the screen.
Also--no color in the paint brushes and no pattern fill. Basically nothing paints on that layer.
If I unlock the background layer and make it editable, I can use the paint bucket and brushes on that layer, no problem. But not on any layers above that.
If I drag the background layer up to make it the top layer, I can paint on it one time. If I change color, change tools, or start another layer. the bucket, brushes, etc. cease to work on that layer. The only way to paint on a layer is to drag it down to make the bottom layer on the stack and paint on it there.
For my purposes, this makes CC 2014 absolutely maddening, close to useless. Help!!! I have been using PS for years and never had this problem til 2014.
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Chris, Thank you soooooo much. I would never in a million years have guessed this was the problem. As it was, it took a few hours to find the drivers, install them and recalibrate my monitor. The bucket and brushes are behaving as they should on all layers. Saved so much time, missed deadlines. You have no idea.

My new blank file is suddenly gray and paint bucket no longer works correctly.

Photoshop Elements 10. I started a new blank file, which opened white, as usual. I enclosed the file with the rectangular marquee tool, and used the paint bucket to fill the background with a brownish color I choose, except it filled with gray. I looked to be sure the color mode was RBG color, and it is. After a frustrating couple of attempts to change the color, I thought of a work around and just created a new layer and colored it, but, when I tried to change the color again, the paint bucket would not respond, so I created another layer and the paint bucket then changed the color for me again. However, I really would prefer it work the way it did before, instead of creating unnecessary layers to do the job. I insert a screen shot, if it helps. Any help resolving this would be appreciated.

I clicked on the arrow and reset the tool. I also reset the transparency setting in preferences, which was the only color related setting I saw there, to no avail. I opened another new file, same result, dumping the paint bucket produced only a grayscale color. Thanks for the suggestion, however.

How to select a shape from pen tool for paint bucket

I was under the notion that I could make a shape with the pen tool and if I closed the the shape it would then be selected in a way that would allow me to color the interior with paint bucket.
However, when I splash the paintbucket inside my shape, it paints the whole layer, not just the part inside my shape.
Obviously I don't understand how it is supposed to work.
Apparently I've gone at this the wrong way.. I want to create a freeform shape, that once created will be a selected region in the same way a rectangle or elips would.
What is the best way to do that? I'm shooting for thought bubble sort of shape, something along the line of the outline of an egg, but with a tail at one end.

Added tips from Tip Merchant ($200 consulation fee)
- on mac - command/ numeric keypad Enter turns the path into a selection. Option delete then fills.
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Photoshop CC for Mac - why can't I use the paint bucket?

I finally found the paint bucket tool - but when I try to use it, I get the circle w/ the cross in it (like the ghostbusters background ).
EUREKA! it didn't work with .tif or .psd files, but it DID work w/ a .jpg file!
Hopw this helps someone!

The file format does not matter (once the image is loaded, it's just bits).
The only time I know of that the paint bucket would not work is on a 32 bit/channel document.
Were you using the wrong bit depth in your files by mistake?

How do you connect lines for a drawing in order to use the live paint bucket tool?

Hello! Im fairly new (okay not really) to using adobe illustrator
I used the Image trace tool to outline this drawing of Captain America but unfortunately the lines arent connected and therefore
messes up my colouring completely when I use the Live Paint Bucket tool.
Is there a way to connect the lines so they are closed when I colour it? Or is there another way to color this drawing?
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Those gaps are very wide. Draw some paths and apply no fill, no stroke to them.
Then make the live paint. In case the live paint already exists, you can go into isolation mode and then draw the paths. Or draw them and use Object > Live paint > Merge

Splitting a Flattened Image into Layers so I can use the Paint Bucket to change colors

I have what I think is a flattened image that is part of a Website template. (I'm assuming the image is flattened, because when I use the paint bucket to change the color, it colors the whole thing; and when I use the magic wand, the whole image is selected). I need to be able to use the paint bucket to change the colors. What do I have to do to make the image work that way? The image is made to look like you're looking left to right at four file folders. The folder labels are a different color. Is there some way to separate the folders (now in green), the folder labels (now in yellow), and the white background from each other, so I can apply the paint bucket to different layers later? I've worked on this for hours now, and can't seem to find the answer. I'll have to change the colors in the image at least 10 different times, so I was hoping I wouldn't have to resort to using the brush or pencil tools.

Darlene,
Another way is to use the Replace Color Tool. The Hue/Saturation method is probably easier, but I thought I'd mention Replace Color for your information.
http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=18IBCKnJchzoxfLEaw7Bu93j9W5jS
In my example I changed the 3rd label in your picture to red.
1. Roughly select the label using the Lasso tools.
2. Enchance>Adjust Color>Replace Color.
3. Click on the label in the picture; it will appear in the box as white on black background. In general you would move the fuzziness slider until just the portion you wish to change appears white. In this case since the yellow is uniform with sharp border the fuzziness slider had minimal additional effect, but I did move it all the way right to capture the fringe pixels.
4. Play with the 3 Transform sliders to get the desired result.
In this next example I changed the top of the lighthouse from red to green (why I would want to do that, I don't know!).
http://www.pixentral.com/show.php?picture=1XhqCAvgc0zVWReJDkUB2OLDQChSy
Note that in this case I didn't have to move the fuzziness all the way right.

Live Paint Bucket in CS5

Using Illustrator on a Windows box running XP sp3 with an Intuos 2
I've been using Illustrator CS2 for awhile and have upgraded to CS5. I need some help with a problem I'm experiencing with the Live Paint Bucket. I select the illustration, go to Object > Live Paint > Make and get the Blue bouning box. I choose my Fill and Stroke colors and go to work. It seems to work until I get a closer view, around 800%, and then I notice that the stroke isn't filling in some of the strokes completely (there appear to be gaps within the Path that don't show in a normal view). Its leaving artifacts (I don't know what else to call them) unstroked. I've attached two two examples of these artifacts. I've also tried to correct this with the Live Paint Selection Tool which I'm also having a problem with. I've released the Live Paint group and checked that all my paths connect and have corrected any problems I can see.
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.
I thank you in advance for any help you can give me.

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.

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