Photoshop rendering question.

Zerosangheili

Hey guys I just started rendering some old drawing in Photoshop, but noticed the bucket tool is very meh. Say I were to just draw a circle and then fill said circle in with any color using the bucket. The color wouldn't quite go all the way to the end. There are a few pixels near the inner wall of whatever object I render that never change.

So I guess my question is how do I make it not do that anymore? I was watching Mike in some of his videos he's posted and he never seems to have that issue. So I would assume I'm just making some noob mistake here. If someone could help me out I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks for your time,

Sang

Hahnsoo1

You probably have anti-aliasing on, which blurs the edges on drawn lines to remove "jaggies". You could also increase the Tolerance of the bucket, I think, so that it will fill even through anti-aliasing.

Catrichor

To get a clean fill, use the magic wand tool first to select the area inside the lines you wish to fill. Then expand the selected area by one or two pixels from the top menu. I can't remember the exact menu name..it's next to filters. I'd also recommend using the bucket tool on a layer below the lines to keep your lines crisp.

Also, if the area isn't a circle, or has some acute angles, the wand won't grab the shape entirely, but you can go add the corner in manually after the main fill.

That's how I do it.

Zerosangheili

How would I go about turning off the anti-aliasing?

webofink

alternatively,
use the paint bucket to fill
once filled, use the wand to grab the area you've filled
edit > stroke
set the stroke pixel width and stroke colour

done and done.

Essee

I think typically there is a "feathering" option for that tool (which basically does what @Hahnsoo1 was talking about) that is on by default. When you select the paint bucket tool, look at the current settings for that tool (usually there is a bar near the top of the program showing the current status of the tool, with all the properties including color and such, if nothing has changed in newer versions of Photoshop) and toggle that option off. Maybe it's not labeled with the name I'm using, especially since it's been a while since I used the paint bucket tool, but almost certainly there's a box that is currently ticked that you should untick.

Disclaimer: I have not used Photoshop in a year, and the last times I used any version of it, it was a couple versions behind the current one (I think I last used CS3 for a little while, but used to use 7 and CS2 a lot), so something may have changed since then.

Edit: Also, for your actual drawn lines, I think there's an airbrush option you can turn off when using the paintbrush tool (which I presume you're using) that might help. You could also use the pencil tool, which doesn't ever act like a paintbrush-- so it never does that antialiasing. Come to think of it, maybe that's your main complaint, but it's still good to get used to looking at tool properties.

Zerosangheili

Thanks for all the advice. I really appreciate it.

@webofink That's actually similar to what I was just doing. I was tracing the border with the brush tool then filling with the bucket. Your method seems to do the same but much faster. Thanks.