Paint Bucket Tool

The stage

1. This tool is used to change the color of existing fills, anything created with the Brush tool and to fill areas surrounded by lines. Select the color you want to use in the Fill Color Control first, then use the Paint Bucket tool to click into the area you want to color.

2. Occasionally you may find that this tool just doesn’t work. The most common reason for this is that the shape you are trying to color has very small gaps in its outline.

3. Luckily, this tool has a built-in gap size modifier in case there are gaps in your shape. Select Close Large Gaps from these options at the bottom of the Toolbox and this should deal with the problem.

4. A common mistake that people make with the Paint Bucket tool is to try to use it to color in the background of their image. Remember that the background color is selected in the Document Properties and can’t be applied with the Paint Bucket tool.