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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Is it possible to get Inkscape's bucket fill to entirely fill regions marked by lines?
I've noticed there's a slight gap between shapes and lines in which bucket-fill is applied (to the enclosed areas found therein) and the colour fill in Inkscape, is there any way of removing this gap (...
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How can I remove text from an image?
I have the following image with written text over it. The image is a flat .jpeg, so I don't have access to the layers:
Click image for full resolution
As you can see, the written text ("SPACE&...
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Why can't I use the Delete key to delete in Photoshop CS6?
The previous version of Photoshop I used was CS4 and whenever I selected a portion of an image with the magic wand and hit Delete, it simply deleted that portion of the image (rendering it transparent)...
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How to fill in areas surrounded by line segments?
I have a rectangular shape and I added an "extension area" to it with several line segments and closed it back to the rectangle.
Specifically, I clicked on an anchor point off a corner of the ...
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Hard edges on bucket fill tool in Gimp
I am trying to fill a selected region using the bucket tool in Gimp. I want everything to have hard edges, no gradual shading unless I do it myself. However, when I fill the region I end up getting ...
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Transparent path/stroke fill in Illustrator
This is an odd request and something I've never had to worry about in Illustrator until now. I'm building out a logo that will be printed on a shirt. Instead of having a solid black border around the ...
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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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How can I replicate Photoshop's content-aware fill in Gimp for Windows?
I want to remove an object from a photograph based on the surrounding patterns. In photoshop I could use the Content Aware Fill Tool, but there doesn't seem to be any built-in alternatives for Gimp on ...
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How do I achieve this "Out of Sync"/mis-registration fill style in Adobe Illustrator?
What is an easy way to achieve this "Out of Sync" Color Fill style?
I'm using Adobe Illustrator CS6 and I think there is an easy way to do this with the way Illustrator is set up, but I'm not sure ...
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How to fill half of a word with one colour and the other half with a different colour in Adobe Illustrator
I want to recreate the text of a logo I have.
It had black half way down the text and then yellow for the other half.
How do I create text with a different colour on each half in Adobe Illustrator?...
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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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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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How to generate vector pattern of random dots with specific density?
I want to make a field of dots.
Primary
Dots should be randomly placed
I want to specify the density of dots (e.g. 10 dots per inch, 40 dots per inch, or 20%, 60%)
Secondary
Dots should not touch
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Gradient effect with dots
I was trying to create a gradient effect using dots, but not using the halftone effect. Examples of what I'm trying to achieve can be seen here:
and here:
I was hoping to achieve this in ...
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Illustrator: changing the opacity of fill and stroke independently won't work
I've read various threads on how one can change the opacity values of stroke and fill individually by going to the Appearance panel. Unfortunately I cannot do that and I'mm stuck.
As you can see in ...
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Fill shape created using "Pen Tool"
I have created an Arc using Pen Tool in a new layer. I want to fill and the convert it into a shape for further manipulation.
I tried "Ctrl + left click" on layer to select the stroke as well as ...
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Select empty space and change color in vector
I have a vector which has some empty regions. I am not sure how to fill some specific empty regions since I can't make a selection, and also the 'image trace' is disabled.
In this example, I want to ...
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How can I split a complicated line into different fill-able groups?
I'm working with Adobe Illustrator for the first time, and I'm coming across something that I think it can do, but I can't find the right Google-words to find it.
Ok, first, here's an image to show ...
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How to bucket fill area with a gradient in Gimp?
I have a very simple problem. In the following image I want the pinnacles and other parts of my (admittedly very awesome) castle filled with some color and other shapes or outlines filled with other ...
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What unicode character should I use to represent the fill bucket?
I'm designing a mockup paint editor for the web and I'm using unicode characters to represent all of the different tools. I ran into a problem when I got to the fill bucket - I can't find anything ...
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How can I easily add color to unclosed shapes?
I've got a line art drawing of a dragon that I'm trying to color. I don't necessarily care if I use Illustrator, Photoshop, or Sketchbook Pro; I'm just trying to figure out the best way to color the ...
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Best fill page with image tiled - mosaic?
Do you know of any plugin that best fills the page with as much copies of an object as it can? I don't care about orientation (they can be vertical and/or horizontal as well), and it would be a plus ...
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GIMP: select a border in layer A and fill it in layer B
I would like to separate the fill from the shape.
So, I would like to select the shape (the border of a selection) in layer A, and fill this selection with color in another layer B.
Is it possible ...
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Adobe Illustrator: How to fill in colors between lines?
I am making a 3D letter and I want to fill in some parts to give it a 3D look. So far I have used black lines to make it but I want to fill in-between the lines.
Can someone show me what to do?
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How do I draw shirt with vertical stripes?
I am redrawing the character on the following picture via Illustrator:
Regarding the stripes on the shirt, I already tried to create it by creating a white and a blue linie and using it as a fill, ...
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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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Inkscape: how to reuse part of a circular path (inner boundary) and connect it to another path inside of that
I use Inkscape: Imagine I have a shape like an O which is a path. Or better said: Two paths, one for the outer boundary and another for the inner boundary. But it is one object (one path??). If I ...
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Replicating a fantasy map coastline pattern along a path
In fantasy maps coastlines are sometimes portrayed using a combination of two parallel lines and wave shapes on the seaside. I wish to replicate this behaviour for a custom coastline (a path) in ...
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Photoshop: how to completely to fill an outline drawn with a brush?
I drew an outline and filled the inside of it. But it did't get completely filled: there's a white gap between the stroke and the fill.
How can I implement a full fill without this gap?
Update: add ...
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How to fill or Paint bucket in Inkscape without white space between two paths? [duplicate]
In inkscape I imported a jpg map file and by using trace bitmap utility I created a set of paths. Now I am trying to fill the regions between maps using paint bucket tool( More specifically the ...
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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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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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Fill many small gaps in Inkscape
I traced a bitmap and after some tweaks I have what you can see in the image below (it's a detail of the whole canvas). As you can see some small gaps exist in the middle of the PCB traces. All the ...
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Illustrator: how to fill space between 2 shapes
I have drawn this in illustrator:
It's just a circle and a hand drawn line with the paint brush tool on top of each other.
How do I go about filling in on of the two halves with a color?
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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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How to make a fill or stroke change its color when the swatch used for it changes?
New to Illustrator, and perhaps I am misunderstanding the purpose of a "swatch".
e.g. My understanding was that if you were doing a 4-color design, and one of those "colors" corresponded to some sort ...
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Why can't I fill a selection with color using GIMP?
I am quite new to GIMP.
I created some text and set it along a path. I created a selection with the same shape as my text.
If I try to fill this selection with a color (Cmd. or Cmd,) GIMP appears to ...
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Inkscape - How to fill a shape with this specific pattern?
I want to copy the style of this technical map of a racetrack with Inkscape, but I don't know how to fill a shape with: the bigger and uniform blue dots and the smaller and more diverse blue/green ...
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How do I fill closed paths in Inkscape?
I exported an AI file from SolidWorks, which only exports lines. Nothing is filled. I'd like to get all the closed shapes to be filled, but I am running into problems when I try to set the "Fill" ...
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Illustrator: how to bring fill in front of the stroke?
I'm wondering how to create a stroke so it doesn't overlap the fill of an object. Working in Illustrator CC. Specific example here:
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How to get a hand colored effect in Illustrator or Photoshop?
How do you create a hand colored effect, like in the image above, using either Adobe Illustrator or Photoshop? I'd like to know how they colored the arrows and how to add a rough gradient like the one ...
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How can I remove two edges of a shape but leave the fill in Inkscape?
I have a hexagon with a border. I can remove one edge from it, and keep the fill colour in it. But if I want to remove a second edge, the fill disappears, because the node has been deleted - as you ...
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Illustrator elements showing through each other in group with graphic style applied
I've been trying to figure this out for a while and can't seem to get it. So, I thought it might be a good idea to ask here. I am having an issue with overlapping objects after applying appearance (...
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Solid bordered ellipse with transparent background in Photoshop?
This has to be a silly question but I cannot see how, in Photoshop CS5, to draw a red bordered ellipse with a transparent fill over a picture. I often find myself doing this to highlight an area of a ...
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Is it possible to draw a black line with a colored fill
For example, in photo shop you can draw a line then select that line and contract the pixels maybe 3 pixels (depending if the line I drew was thicker)and fill that area with a color.
Thus the line ...
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Illustrator space around outline and removing shape
I've used "//" and "\" to create this "W", and have made them into outlines, as I'm trying to give the different layers a colour, as well as having a white space where the lines touch and I would like ...
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Is there a shortcut for changing the value a Layer's Fill similar to configuring its opacity
So to change a layers opacity value using the keyboard you would use the numeric keys. But being how close it is in proximity you would think there would be something similar for change a layer's fill....
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How to Remove Stroke while Resizing Object to Appear the Same - Illustrator
I have an object in Illustrator that has both a Stroke and a Fill of the same colour. I would like to remove the Stroke and resize (or otherwise alter) the object so the Fill matches what the object ...
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How to fill a shape in photoshop and avoid white lines
This is something it will be useful for several things now that I started "photoshoping" - so I made some lines with the pen tool, then right clicked with the 'direct selection' and then 'stroke path' ...
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Is there a tool that fills an area by its surrounding borders?
By example:
Is there a tool or a way to fill the white X shape so that the colors and patterns around it will blend into it as automatically as possible?
I.e., I want to remove the X as close to the ...
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