Questions tagged [fill]
Questions about the action of applying a color, pattern or gradient within a defined area often defined by lines, strokes and/or borders.
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Creating a convex hull object that covers disjoint objects in Illustrator
I am trying to freeform gradient fill this implied curved teardrop. However, when I compound path the objects freeform gradient doesn't work (see image below). My next idea was to create an object ...
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How do I get rid of the white line after using the fill tool in krita
If I use the fill or bucket tool in Krita I end up with these white outlines. so What I am wondering is how can I get rid of the white outlines that appear after using the fill tool in Krita. it ...
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How can I draw shapes with a pen tool and colour them in without white artifacts?
In this (zoomed) picture you can see white artifacts at the edges of the coloured sides.
This is caused by me selecting the white area of each face, and using that selection to limit the colouring-in....
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Trying to do FILL on numbers but keep getting a complete fill
My first post here...In Inkscape, I'm trying to do a fill on a couple numbers, the number '86' to be exact. I'm having a problem filling the letter with two different colors. I was reading a ...
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Pinta fill-transparent for everything lighter than black?
I have an image which I wanted to set the background as transparent for, which was pretty straightforward in Pinta due to a great tutorial. But I was left with a faint whiteish grayish outline when I ...
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How can I combine and fill these lines In Sketch?
I have a few orange lines that I have drawn in sketch. I would like to combine them into one shape and use something like a "paint bucket" tool to fill the whole object with the light sand color.
I ...
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Changing object/path filling's opacity without changing the stroke's opacity
I would like to reduce the opacity of the filling colour of an object/path and keep the stroke of such object/path unchanged.
Is there a way of impeding this relationship so I can only reduce the ...
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How can I extend the pattern in a group layer mask?
I'm fairly new to photoshop (currently using CC 2015) so I apologise for any incorrect use of terminology and if I'm asking a stupid question.
I created an A6 document and followed instructions to ...
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Randomly fill image with unique colors?
In this image, I would like to randomly fill each region with a different color, such that, no two regions have the same color. I've been searching for such a method and have come across a script that ...
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How to create an inverse pattern with black and white in Inkscape?
I've a path which I want to overlay with a watermark pattern.
Since my path is filled only with white and the background is dark I want to make the watermark overlay pattern to switch color only if it'...
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Simple patterns fill in Gimp
I would like to do some simple pattern or polygon fills in Gimp, e.g. to represent different regions in a map without resorting to colors or grayscale tones.
Some nice examples of what I seek are ...
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Gnuplot: problems with filling
Using Gnuplot, I tried to fill the surface between a discrete gaussian and the x-axis: the problem comes when the gaussian is cut from the bounds parallel to the y-axis.
This is the result:
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Illustrator text fill transparent over image effect
I'm trying to recreate an effect I've seen a few times where some text is placed over a background image, and the fill opacity over the background image is transparent but the fill of the rest of the ...
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Using the Clip Studio Paint Lasso fill tool to fill an preexisting closed shape?
I have seen videos in which CSP’s lasso fill tool is used, not to fill the shape being drawn, but in order to fill an existing (closed) shape.
Here is an example : https://youtu.be/YgVWO8qieYs
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What does it mean to have two colors in the fill section?
What does this fill color mean? How did it come up? What is the use of it? There is no explanation in both The Fill and Stroke Dialog — Inkscape Beginners' Guide 1.0 documentation and Inkscape ...
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how to fill bounded areas perfectly in inkscape
I have a PNG with transparent background. I want to draw a rectangle over it (the dashed rectangle) and then fill it with some color because for my text, I need to add a rectangle over some areas to ...
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Can I set a fill color opacity in Illustrator?
I found this question last asked in 2011: Make fill translucent but keep stroke opaque in Illustrator
My question is roughly the same. I'd like to have a solid/opaque stroke line with a translucent ...
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Make fill translucent but keep stroke opaque in Illustrator
How do I set the fill of a rectangle to be 50% opacity, but keep the stroke at full opacity? The transparency panel controls both fill and stroke. I want to set them independently.
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Fill non-transparent part of image in InDesign
I have a linked image in Adobe InDesign which is a transparent PNG. I want to fill the visible part of that image with a particular color, i.e. the transparent pieces should stay transparent but the ...
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Compound path - Fill doesn't match shape
This is a really simple file. Just a outlined text, made into a compound path. It's weird that the fill doesn't match the outline (in blue) does anyone know what's happening here?
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How can I fill a contour?
I'm as astonished as ashamed. I know my limitations, I know I'm way, way far of even leaving the basic level in terms of design, but I simply can't find a way of fill a random contour I've downloaded ...
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Problem with Colour Fill in Closed Path in Illustrator
I am creating a logo and have drawn a motif with the pen tool and - as far as I'm aware - the path is closed as I'm able to fill it with colour.
However, on closer inspection, the fill colour is not ...
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Inkscape's stroke and fill are invisible, not opacity or 'A' value
I am using the new version of inkscape (1.2) on a MacBook Pro, and when I try to make lines or shapes I am unable to see the fill or stroke that I adjust. I can adjust the stroke thickness to whatever ...
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Font/Type fill-rule issue with intersecting shapes in InDesign PDFs
With some fonts in InDesign (in this case, HEX Franklin), the PDFs that are exported show weird rendering issues (see screenshot). I tried reading up on this, but couldn't find a clear answer as to ...
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How do I stop Pencil drawn shapes from being transparent? - Adobe Illustrator
Every new shape I draw in the Pencil tool always comes up as transparent, where as other tools (rectangle, ellipse, polygon, etc.) always keep their default or previously chosen fill color. Although ...
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Why form content is not filling in this picture?
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I don't know why fill is not working. Is an illustration imported from Illustrator and there object is showed properly, with shape color filled. But when I import in ...
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Why does my arrow turn into this strange shape in Inkscape?
Does anyone know why my arrow turns into this strange shape in Inkscape when I fill it?
Here is my svg file from Inkscape.
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Why does my paint brush on adobe illustrator keep doing this?
My paint brush keeps changing the fill/border, It has never done this before. It makes it hard to be accurate. The eraser makes bubbled marks instead of regular smooth eraser marks. Again, Never ...
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Cutting/filling an image with a bitmap (linedrawing) in Inkscape
I have a line drawing that I turned into a bitmap in Inkscape (with Path > Trace Bitmap). I would like to fill certain areas of the drawing with an image.
I tried various options in Path. I also ...
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How can I color a custom pattern in Inkscape?
When I go to fill and stroke -> fill -> pattern how do I select a color for the pattern?
Selecting a color removes the pattern and vice versa.
Even when I precolor the region with the correct ...
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How do I pattern fill a region in inkscape?
Basically the way paint bucket can fill a region with color I would like to do that except fill a region with a pattern.
Crossposted here
Not the same as this as I'm only filling a region not an ...
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Increase border size using content aware fill within batch processing in Photoshop
I would like to increase the border width of a yellow image border and perform this action within a batch process for multiple similar images within Photoshop.
So far I performed the following steps ...
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Fill color between 2 shape lines
I've got two layers, a shape in each layer. What I want is to fill the lines between the two shapes. I've tried to merge the shapes but then it just stays completely filled in, like the screenshot.
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Remove fill from area when no fill is present in Inkscape
Disclaimer: I'm very new to Inkscape and have almost no experience in graphic design, I'm just getting started.
I'm trying to create an object with certain areas be either transparent or always filled ...
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Why does my fill go outside the path?
So I just want to fill that path with color but this happens. When it is not filled or in 0% opacity, it looks really normal, no doubled edges or things. I don't know how to fix that.
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How to solidify the outline of an image that has feathered edges?
Imagine saving a .png image of a solid-colored circle that is on top of a transparent background. However, the circle is filled with that solid color in such a way that towards its outer contours (...
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Illustrator: keyboard shortcut for color picker
I'm working on various color schemes for my design elements. I wish I could simply fill the elements by copying and pasting hex-values using keyboard shortcuts.
Everytime, I have to double click on ...
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how to stop color overlap (bleeding) when filling second time with magic wand select in Adobe Photoshop
When using the magic wand to select an area to fill (first image), when I fill the first time, there is no color overlap on the edges (second image). But if I fill the same area again with a ...
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I Am Confused - Why Won't This Fill? - Illustrator
Hi, I am a newb using Illustrator. I don't know what's going on in Layers )= I understand the tools, but not how they work together I guess.
It's black, but I can not see anything being filled.
What ...
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Colouring in a circle perfectly without using the fill-bucket
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As you can see in the video, I made a circle, then coloured it in manually - and then, it went over the outline.
How do you avoid this? I would like to colour an object without having to go ...
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How to fill area under path
first off i couldn't suck more at graphic design. That's why i usually ask for some help - but since i need those graphics for different websites i usually end up with more trouble than before when ...
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How can I reproduce those stroke and fill a shape with it?
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Is there a way to fill a particular shape with stroke/lines in a randomized angle and position. Which would allow me to avoid doing it by hand ... lazy me!
I put a picture so you can ...
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Using the shapebuilder tool to make shading on a donut. Illustrator CS6
I am following a youtube tutorial (not a speed art vid) and have become stuck at the shapebuilder tool step. Basically there is the purple stroke on a seperate layer. The pink fill is on its own layer....
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Inkscape: Trying to change the pattern fill but node tool only affects the path of the object being filled
Very new to Inkscape. I have a shape that I traced, roughly heart shaped like a locket. I want to fill it with pink and black stripes, but the patterns only offered black and transparent stripes, so I ...
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Adding a fill to the repeat tile Illustrator CS6
Is it possible to create a fill inside the pattern editing mode without having to put a shape behind it? I know there is the alternative method of adding a fill after you create the repeat tile in the ...
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removed paths from group removes live paint effect as well Ai CS6
I removed a piece of the art work from the group however when I cut and pasted it outside of the group it looked like this.
I used live paint on the group so I am guessing it has something to do with ...
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Select same fill colour greyed out for live paint bucket tool- Ai CS6
I am wanting to change the colour of something I used the live paint bucket on. I also have other paths that have the same colour fill and am wanting to change their colour as well. I went to select &...
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Illustrator shape doesn't fill along path
When looking very closely at my shapes, the fill is not following the paths I have defined. I have attached a screen shot where you see the blue does not go all the way to the red path. I have never ...
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Corner fill issue, Corner has fill from stroke
I have an issue of one corner of my shape being filled with colour from the stroke.
The brush is basic, uniform, no calligraphy brush. It happens when I close a shape. There can be fill or no fill and ...
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Affinity Designer: Fill space without closed nodes
I have done this using Designer Persona. However, I can't see how I could colour the space between the curves that are not enclosed without having to re-do the shape and enclose it.
In the second ...
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