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.

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    Hi,
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  • CS5 Paint Bucket - Where is it? Or, should I fill the shape using a different tool?

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    hmmm ... but now it works.
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    where is the paint bucket icon on PS cc

    Press and hold down on the Gradient Tool (just below the Eraser Tool) and it will pop up for you to select.
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  • Where can I find the paint bucket tool

    where can I find the paint bucket tool

    Which version of photoshop and operating system are you using?
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    You can click and hold on the tool icons in the tool box to see the hidden tools.
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  • Hi, I have elements 12, and my paint bucket wants to just use gray.  I can not find where to reset t

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    Check under Image> Mode that RGB Color is selected.
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    Most of the tools on the Tools panel have multiple choices.  This keeps the panel small while making a large number of tools available to you.  Click and hold on any one of the panel boxes to see all your choices.
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  • 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!

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

    For example, I want to draw a bush
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    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.
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    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

  • 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.
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    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.
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    What you need is Mordy Golding's book Real World Illustrator.

  • AI5 Live Paint Bucket Tool

    I am totally a newbie to Adobe Illustrator. I'm using the trial version of AI5.
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    Cross posting.

  • Live paint bucket error

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    First, tell which version of Illustrator you are using.
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  • CS5 illustrator paint bucket ?

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  • Does CS 5.5 have a live paint bucket tool like CS 4?

    I can not find the live paint bucket tool in CS 5.5. There is a paint bucket icon but it does not work like CS 4.0. CS 4.0 was so easy to use. I cannot get CS 5.5 to work at all.

    I know you found it but in case someone else need to find where they are...
    The "Live Paint Bucket" & "Live Paint Selection Tool" are located under the new "Shape Builder Tool" in CS5 & Up.
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    "Live Paint Selection Tool" - [Shift+L]
    "Shape Builder Tool" - [Shift+M]

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