Paint Bucket leaving ugly pixelated border lines

[ytorf]

I am having the same problem. Turning off anti-alias doesn't do anything. All I can do it turn up tolerance and then the paint bucket fills any adjoining color, effectively making it useless. Is there another fix?

paintbucketbug.afphoto

[walt.farrell]

1 hour ago, ytorf said:

Is there another fix?

I'm not sure what you're showing us in that .afphoto file. Can you perhaps provide a screen recording to help demonstrate what you're seeing?

It's not clear to me, for example, if your issue is with making a smooth pixel selection to fill, or what, exactly.

 

[ytorf]

51 minutes ago, walt.farrell said:

I'm not sure what you're showing us in that .afphoto file. Can you perhaps provide a screen recording to help demonstrate what you're seeing?

It's not clear to me, for example, if your issue is with making a smooth pixel selection to fill, or what, exactly.

 

If you look at the image I attached in the last post you'll see a jagged white halo between the outline created by the brush and the fill created by the paint bucket. Here's a screen recording

[user_0815]

Up the tolerance to somethin like 99%. 

[walt.farrell]

13 hours ago, ytorf said:

If you look at the image I attached in the last post you'll see a jagged white halo between the outline created by the brush and the fill created by the paint bucket. Here's a screen recording

Thanks. 

For future reference, it's better to include the complete application window in the recording. I should have mentioned that; sorry. 

In this case, for example, we can't see any details of the brush you're using from the Context Toolbar, which can be critical.

Edit:  However, now that I'm at my computer and can test, that added detail is not needed in this specific case.

[NotMyFault]

You can avoid the issue by 

• flood select the area with high tolerance setting
• grow the selection by a few pixel
• fill the selected area

[NotMyFault]

I just checked again, it is simpler:

• Use flood fill tool
• activate „continuous“
• activate „antialiasing“
• set tolerance to 75%
• click once in the middle.

this fills any object  with a colored edge in the middle without seams - unless the edge is extremely tiny.

[walt.farrell]

I think one of the methods suggested by @NotMyFault provides the best working approach.

[walt.farrell]

FYI: Now posted as a Bug by ytorf, here:

 

[ytorf]

1 minute ago, walt.farrell said:

FYI: Now posted as a Bug by ytorf, here:

 

Apologies for the double posting. I didn't see the replies here until now for some reason

[ytorf]

Quote

I just checked again, it is simpler:

• Use flood fill tool
• activate „continuous“
• activate „antialiasing“
• set tolerance to 75%
• click once in the middle.

this fills any object  with a colored edge in the middle without seams - unless the edge is extremely tiny.

Yes, but the issue is if I want to flood fill an area of color inside another area of color (which I do all the time with my workflow) a high tolerance of the flood fill tool will take over any other color connected to it, even if not similar. Bringing the tolerance down to around 25% solves this, but brings back the jagged edge. (Including a screen capture hopefully closer to what @walt.farrell suggested. Thanks for the help!

[NotMyFault]

Well, the workflow you are currently using creates this issue.

You can‘t have it all at once:

• smooth edges by anti-aliasing (effectively mixing colors, triggering overfill when using required high tolerance levels)
• painting every curve into the same pixel layer

you can avoid the issue when painting the individual colors on separate layers. This avoids mixing colors at edges, and improves selections (tolerance can keep low). Furthermore you can use the layer sequence to delete part of the pixel layer without impacting later edits on other layers.

[StuartRc]

@NotMyFault Good answer!😀
I just checked my settings for inking (Black Stroke | Black Fill) It is at: 30% tolerance + continuous +antialiasing
Use it all the time just using a quick tab on the 'G' key to turn on fill so you don't need to change tools. 
Also Source is pretty useful for using target layers to colour fill layers below | above

[ytorf]

Thanks for the replies @StuartRc and @NotMyFault. I'll play around with source and adjust my layer usage (minimizing layers is a very old habit that's hard for me to break 😂