User Guide

Corel Painter 121
14% is a good setting for lines created with the
Scratchboard tool variant.
To fill cells:
1 Choose the Paint Bucket tool from
the toolbox.
2 Click the Fill Cell button on
the property bar.
3 Choose one of the following from
the Fill pop-up menu:
• Current Color—fills with the
selected color
• Grad—fills with the selected
gradient
• Clone Source—fills using the
current clone source image. If
you haven’t defined a clone
source, Corel Painter fills with
the current pattern.
• Wea ve —fills with the selected
weave
4 Choose the specific material you
want from the Fill selector.
5 Click inside a bounded region.
Corel Painter fills the area.
If the fill overruns the lines, you
should increase the Mask
Threshold setting. If the fill leaves
line pixels anti-aliased to the
background color, you should
reduce the Mask Threshold
setting.
The finished cartoon after filling the cells.
Tips
•
To see how Fill Cell works, do the
following:
1. Draw a black circle on a blank
document.
2. Select a new color.
3. Choose the Paint Bucket tool, and click
the Fill Cell button on the property bar.
4. Click inside the circle.
5. Choose Edit menu > Undo.
6. Select another color.
7. Click outside the circle.
•
You can constrain the fill to a
rectangular area by dragging with the
Paint Bucket tool.
•
If you are recording your session as a
script, cell fills are captured as well. When
playing back at a different resolution, cell
fills (and their limiting rectangles) are
properly scaled. For information on
recording and playing back sessions, refer
to “Understanding Scripting” on
page 415. For information on limiting
rectangles, refer to “Limiting and
Preventing Leakage” on page 121.
Limiting and Preventing
Leakage
In complex drawings, lines don’t
always meet. This can create fill leaks
into areas you don’t want to be
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,”