Drawing with Brushes, Shapes, and Other Tools - Photoshop Elements 13: The Missing Manual - page 626

The Paint Bucket
When you want to quickly fill a large area with color, the Paint Bucket is the tool for you. It's
in the Tools panel's Draw section, right below the Brush tool. Simply activate the Paint
Bucket by clicking its icon or pressing its keyboard shortcut (K), adjust its Tool Options set-
tings (described below), and then click in your image; Elements floods all the available area
(either the whole image or the current selection) with your foreground color. It works
something like the Magic Wand: Just as the Magic Wand selects only the color you click, the
Paint Bucket fills only the color you click.
Most of the Paint Bucket's Tool Options settings are probably familiar:
▪ Pattern . Normally, the Paint Bucket fills the affected area with your current foreground
color, but click the square with diagonal lines on it to make this tool use a pattern instead.
Click the pattern thumbnail in the Tool Options area, and then choose an existing pattern
or create your own, just as you would with the Pattern Stamp ( The Pattern Stamp ).
NOTE
Adjust the Paint Bucket's Tool Options settings before clicking in your photo.
▪ Opacity . One hundred percent opacity gives you total coverage: Nothing shows through
the paint you put down. Lower this percentage for a more transparent effect.
▪ Tolerance . This setting works the same way it does for the Magic Wand ( The Magic
Wand ) : The higher the number, the more shades the paint fills.
▪ Mode . You can use the Paint Bucket in any blend mode, as explained later in this chapter
( Blending and Smudging ).
▪ All Layers . Turn on this checkbox and the paint fills any pixels that meet your criteria
(determined by the tool's other Tool Options settings), no matter what layer they're on.
(The Paint Bucket actually paints on the active layer, but with this setting turned on, it
looks for pixels to change based on all the layers in your image. If it's turned off, the
Paint Bucket only works on the active layer.) To exclude a particular layer when All Lay-
ers is turned on, click that layer's eye icon in the Layers panel to hide it. Don't forget that