Graphics Programs Reference
In-Depth Information
Pouring Paint from a bucket
Although the Paint Bucket tool doesn't artistically stream paint out of a bucket
like Jackson Pollock did in the mid-twentieth century, it evenly floods bounded
areas with paint. In the following steps you will experiment with different meth-
ods of pouring in background color to surround the painted sketch you have
been developing.
1.
Open your version of
Painted Sketch.tif
if it is not already open.
2.
Press Shift+Cmd+N to create a new layer, type
Paint Bucket
in the
New Layer dialog box, and click OK.
this file is also avail-
able on the topic's
downloads page.
3.
Press Cmd+[ to move the Paint Bucket layer down until it is below
the Painting layer in the Layers panel.
4.
Click the foreground color swatch on the Tools panel and select a
dark-brown color such as #3e3220 in the Color Picker dialog box that
appears. Click OK.
5.
Press Shift+G to select the Paint Bucket tool under the Gradient
tool. On the options bar, set Tolerance to 0 and deselect Anti-Alias,
Contiguous, and All Layers. Click inside the document window and
brown paint will flood the Paint Bucket layer, creating a dark back-
ground in the painted sketch. This method works well when the ele-
ments of a composition are on layers separate from the background.
6.
Press the Delete key to get rid of the Paint Bucket layer. This time you
will pour paint onto a flattened composition. Choose Layer a Flatten
Image.
7.
Click in the white area surrounding the sketch to flood it with paint.
Observe any white fringes that may appear around the edges of the
building (see Figure 4.14). Fringes appear along the edges of these
brushstrokes because they were made with a brush having 50%
hardness. The Paint Bucket tool floods only pure-white pixels when
Tolerance is set to 0%.
8.
Press Cmd+Z to undo. On the options bar, set Tolerance to 30 and
select Anti-Alias. Click the white background to flood it with brown
paint. This time no fringe appears because the increased tolerance
floods more whites and anti-aliasing blends the transition between
background and the painted sketch.
9.
Save your work as
Flattened Flooded Painted Sketch.tif
.
